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In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 3001. 'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space. Humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations. Blood spilled centuries ago flows vividly once more -- and no personal treachery or shame can be concealed. But when the world and everything in it becomes as transparent as glass and there are no more secrets, people find new ways to gain vengeance and commit crime, and Hiram Patterson finds new ways to keep his Machiavellian schemes secret.
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ワームカムをもちいた過去の探査によって、キリストの生涯、フェルマーの定理など、歴史上の謎がつぎつぎと解明されていった。しかし、それらの素晴らしい成果とは裏腹に、ワームカムは人々がお互いを監視する道具としても使われていく。やがて、世界中に普及したワームカムは、人類の未来に驚くべき変化をもたらすことになるが!?人類そして地球の過去と未来を見すえた壮大なヴィジョンで描かれる、ハードSFの新地平。
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7 人中、7人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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past finder またはpast viewer なんという魅惑的な響きでしょう。過去の行いが全て明らかにされるとなると将来の行いも自己規制せざるを得なくなるでしょう。悪事に活用しようとする輩も出てくるのですが、著者は人間の性、善なることを信じているのでしょう。未来は明るいのです。数百年から数億年までも自分の遺伝子を遡るシーンは圧巻です。歴史上の謎解きも。
Clarke の初期の名作「Childhood’s End」では最後の若い世代のみが未知の時空に旅立ちますが、本書では過去の世代を含めて本当に全人類を旅立たせます。Clarkeの願いかもしれません。悪いやつらは旅立つことなく残してほしいな。
本のタイトルはThomas Mooreの詩の一節からとられています。友と別れた寂しさがバックにあるのでしょうか。オリジナルの詩は「Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.」と終えています。500年後に地球を襲うと言う彗星がいつのまにか筋から消えてしまったので星☆一つダウン。
3 人中、3人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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インターネットのウェブカムの拡大解釈と言える「ワームカム」のアイデアも面白いのだが、未来に時限制限してあるところが秀逸である。これを「未来を否定された世界が、突如として、惜しみなくその過去を与えることになったのだ。」と表現しているのは、やられたなぁという感じ。（この言い回しがクラークなのか、バクスターなのかは残念ながら不明ではある）
この設定と新テクノロジーによって人類の行動や社会がどう変わっていくかという描写には、政治批判やクラークの人類に対する考え方（いつものように人類の可能性を肯定的に温かく見守っている）が反映されていて興味深い。さらにビジネスの論理や親子・兄弟関係を持ち込むことでドラマとしても幅を持たせている。
ネタバレになってしまうが、終盤にかなりの紙数を費やしている地球史の遡行部分はやけに詳細である。こうやって人類史を俯瞰することこそが、人類の見守り手であるクラークが書きたかったことだったんだなと思わせた。エピローグがこれまた魅力的で、本編からエピローグに至る飛躍部分をつなぐその後の人類史をテーマにした続編が期待される。
この設定と新テクノロジーによって人類の行動や社会がどう変わっていくかという描写には、政治批判やクラークの人類に対する考え方（いつものように人類の可能性を肯定的に温かく見守っている）が反映されていて興味深い。さらにビジネスの論理や親子・兄弟関係を持ち込むことでドラマとしても幅を持たせている。
ネタバレになってしまうが、終盤にかなりの紙数を費やしている地球史の遡行部分はやけに詳細である。こうやって人類史を俯瞰することこそが、人類の見守り手であるクラークが書きたかったことだったんだなと思わせた。エピローグがこれまた魅力的で、本編からエピローグに至る飛躍部分をつなぐその後の人類史をテーマにした続編が期待される。
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16 人中、16人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
I think this is one of Clarke's best
2004/10/22
形式:ハードカバー
An entrepreneur in the spirit of the old guy in Jurassic Park proudly unleashes an invention that will have worldwide consequences. His "worm cam" allows the user to open a portal anywhere in the universe, at any time in the past. The invention and its effects on humanity are explored as they eventually unravel the secrets of the past, and alter the evolution of humans. Interspersed with this background is a human story involving a beautiful journalist, and the family of the entrepreneur including divorced wife, two sons, and their half-sister.
The Good and the Bad:
Clarke hits a home run with the science fiction end of it, and this is purely where the good rating comes from. The futuristic world seems believable, and the technology is put to use to answer a whole host of questions that we have fun asking-what really happened to Jesus? What is the track of human evolution? What would the response be to a sudden and total lack of privacy?
The human stories, however, are cartoonish and leave much to be desired. The entrepreneur is like the guy from Jurassic Park, and none of the characters achieve more depth than the characters of that movie. An attempt is made, but it is ultimately poorly done, as is a plot involving a kidnapping and a physical struggle in the climax.
What I learned:
The book is thought-provoking, and raises interesting hypothetical questions. What would it be like to strip away the lies we tell ourselves of our own past? Where in history and outer space would I travel? How much shame would I endure for my own past?
The Good and the Bad:
Clarke hits a home run with the science fiction end of it, and this is purely where the good rating comes from. The futuristic world seems believable, and the technology is put to use to answer a whole host of questions that we have fun asking-what really happened to Jesus? What is the track of human evolution? What would the response be to a sudden and total lack of privacy?
The human stories, however, are cartoonish and leave much to be desired. The entrepreneur is like the guy from Jurassic Park, and none of the characters achieve more depth than the characters of that movie. An attempt is made, but it is ultimately poorly done, as is a plot involving a kidnapping and a physical struggle in the climax.
What I learned:
The book is thought-provoking, and raises interesting hypothetical questions. What would it be like to strip away the lies we tell ourselves of our own past? Where in history and outer space would I travel? How much shame would I endure for my own past?
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On old idea made rich and strange
2000/6/11
形式:ハードカバー
I've been a fan of Sir Arthur Clarke's science fiction for most of my life. I haven't read anything by Stephen Baxter before, but after this I will. They've produced a real winner here.
As they say in the afterword, the idea of a machine that can see into the past and through walls is an old one (I especially recommend "E for Effort," by T. L. Sherrard, if you can find an old copy of the ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY). Clarke and Baxter managed to make it new and different.
The key to their achievement was to anchor it to a rigorously imagined physics. The "wormhole camera" turns out to have uses and implications that its inventors don't expect, and it leads off in many strange directions.
I don't want to give away surprises, but I started this book expecting to be able to predict everything that would happen, and I was repeatedly taken by surprise.
There are a few flaws in this novel (for instance, the POW camp scene, which apparently has no purpose whatsoever), but almost everything is topnotch. The characters are mostly believable, the future world is interesting, and the ending was a delight.
Highly recommended.
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Technological Consequences vs Compelling Characters?
2001/2/4
形式:マスマーケット
Science Fiction, from its earliest days, has been decried by its critics as immature, pulp fantasy. Often this has been a well-deserved comment, as all too much science fiction is neither good science nor good fiction. Take an intelligent twelve-year-old to the movies with you and you are likely to hear, "Well, the alien was cool, but space is a vacuum and you couldn't hear the explosion, and the fire wouldn't have burned like that cause there's no atmosphere to burn, and anyway, why weren't they all floating around, cause everyone knows there's no gravity in outer space!", or some such. But many modern day science fiction writers, following the lead of such giants as Arthur C. Clarke and Issac Asimov, now incorporate good science into their works--thus the term "hard science fiction." Stephen Baxter is one of the hardest of these hard sci-fi writers, and his co-authorship with Clarke of "The Light of Other Days" fulfills its potential as the book is rich with the consequences of a speculative technology. In this case, we have, not time-travel, but time-vision and omni-vision. With the development of the "WormCam", a videocamera that can see macroscopic images anywhere in the universe and anywhere in the past, humanity faces a crisis of self. Compounding the issue is the impending crash of a gigantic asteroid into the Earth, which seemingly cannot be averted and which will almost surely destroy all intelligent life. (That the asteroid is called the Wormwood, the camera is the WormCam, the place the camera was developed is the Wormworks, and the phenomenon on which the technology is based is the Wormhole is all a bit much, and leads to some confusion on the part of the inattentive reader. But that's another can of worms...) Clarke and Baxter relentlessly pursue the consequences of the total loss of privacy, the abuse of power, the subsequent counter-measures, the demise of society's most cherished myths, the effect on religion, and so forth. I can easily imagine a brain-storming session between the two writers--it must have been quite exciting, with ideas and their consequences flying fast and furious. Hard sci-fi fans will love this book, and as an exploration of ideas, it is very good indeed.
But there is another side to science fiction, and that is the personal side, the fiction more than the science. And here, frankly, like so much "hard sci-fi" writing, I feel that Clarke and Baxter have let their readers down a bit. It is one thing to say "society will be affected this way by this development" and another thing entirely to write a tale with characters who are caught up in those developments that the readers care about. The first is *telling,* and it is the domain of dissertations, newspapers, science journals. The second is *showing,* and it is the true ART of fiction writing. There are so many good writers of fiction now, who create very compelling characters that truly grip us with their dilemmas--James Lee Burke, James Hall, Michael Connelly (none of these are sci-fi writers, admittedly) to name but a very few. It seemed to me a great shame that the ideas of this book, which were very interesting and well-thought out, were hung on such weak characters. Indeed, at times the story-line, such as it was, was abandoned just for such "telling" writing as "quotes" from books and journals, etc. published about historical or sociological research. I should have been prepared for this when the first character to appear apparently dies of a heart attack at the end of the first chapter and no mention of him is ever made again. Although I often decry the lack of good editing, as so many of today's writers seem to me to "over-write", and a compact book of 200 pages or so is a rarity today, in this particular case I think the authors simply needed more space to tell their tale in a more compelling way. If this had had the characterizations of Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land it would have been an instant classic. But I'm afraid that in its current state it will not gain a wider appeal beyond hard-core hard sci-fi fans.
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