title: The Light of Other Days
author:  Arthur C. Clarke 
description: Tiny tear bottom DJ. Pages are clean and bright and binding is tight. Solid Book.
zlib_text: The Light Of Other Days (v1.1)
  
  Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, 2000
  
    
    
    
  
   **Prologue**
  
    
  
  Bobby could see the Earth, complete and serene, within its cage of silver
  light.
  
  Fingers of green and blue pushed into the new deserts of Asia and the North
  American Midwest. Artificial reefs glimmered in the Caribbean, pale blue
  against the deeper ocean. Great wispy machines labored over the poles to
  repair the atmosphere. The air was clear as glass, for now mankind drew its
  energy from the core of Earth itself.
  
  And Bobby knew that if he chose, with a mere effort of will, he could look
  back into time.
  
  He could watch cities bloom on Earth's patient surface, to dwindle and vanish
  like rusty dew. He could see species shrivel and devolve like leaves curling
  into their buds. He could watch the slow dance of the continents as Earth
  gathered its primordial heat back into its iron heart. The present was a
  glimmering, expanding bubble of life and awareness, with the past locked
  within, trap