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Book Review of The Light of Other Days

The Light of Other Days
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The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses quantum physics to enable people everywhere to see one another at all times; around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. This new technology amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever.

Then, as men and women scramble to absorb this shock, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what follows--the wholesale discovery of the truth about thousands of years of human history. Governments topple, religions fall, the entire edifice of human society is shaken to its roots. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition...cause for despair, provocation for chaos, and--just maybe--opportunity for transcendence.

The Light of Other Days is a tour de force, an SF event for the millennium, and a story you will not soon forget.