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Sunstorm

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The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare.

It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet.

The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist, an expert on the sun, predicted the flare.

One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end.

She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the 'eyes'.

She knows who is responsible. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre

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Gollancz
0575078014 / 9780575078017
Paperback / softback
823.914
13/04/2006
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
332 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 2005.
Arthur C. Clarke is perhaps the most famous living SF author in the world Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most significant SF author of his generation The sequel to the critically acclaimed and bestselling Time's Eye Related to 2001
Arthur C. Clarke is perhaps the most famous living SF author in the world Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most significant SF author of his generation The sequel to the critically acclaimed and bestselling Time's Eye Related to 2001 FL Science fiction