I finished the sequel to "Time's Eye", the "Sunstorm" two days ago in another 24hour period. This one isn't so enjoyable. The problem with it is that it was too... technical. It also made the aliens responsible for "Time's Eye" the villain. I can buy that the aliens from Time's Eye decided to take different chunks of Earth at different periods of time to study the developement of humanity, but for these aliens to send a planet into the sun just so that eventually, the sun would have a "Sunstorm" which would destroy humanity seems too farfetched. I don't really like the book. 5/10. I'll definitely read the sequel when it comes out in 2007, called the "Firstborns", but I don't think it will be what I wanted it to be.
In addition to that, I'm now reading the various short stories by Arthur C Clarke. I'm about 1/6th done his short stories and I enjoyed these much better that Sunstorm. I just wish that some of the stories were expanded, but then it wouldn't be called a "Short story" anymore. I can see that Clarke was very intelligent and very adept at writing his stories. Truly a master.
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