As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting… Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge…Īnd the power that lies within. The astronauts, crash landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037 three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind until they act. TIME S EYEFor eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. If Clarke has an heir among today’s science fiction writers, it is award winning author Stephen Baxter. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. The Year’s Best Science Fiction Books In Publication Order Secrets of the Dragon Riders: Your Favorite Authors on Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle: Completely Unauthorized (By:) (2008).
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