Mysterious, incredibly superior alien beings assemble a new
Earth out of bits and pieces of the old one, which they snatch from
various eras. So a UN helicopter crew from 2037, a crew of
astronauts from the same era, Genghis Khan and his Horde, Alexander
the Great and his army, a British Indian outpost where Rudyard
Kipling rendered here in all his youthful complexity is visiting,
and a remnant of Babylon end up coexisting. Not at all peacefully,
either, especially when one astronaut, a r
關於作者:
Arthur C. Clarke is considered the greatest science fiction
writer of all time and is an international treasure in many other
ways, including the fact that an article by him in 1945 led to the
invention of satellite technology. Books by Clarke—both fiction and
nonfiction—have sold more than one hundred million copies in print
worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka.
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge
and Southampton Universities. Baxter is the acclaimed author of the
Manifold novels and Evolution. He is the winner of the British
Science Fiction Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award,
and the Philip K. Dick Award, as well as being a nominee for an
Arthur C. Clarke Award.
From the Hardcover edition.