Sunstorm

A Time Odyssey, Book 2

By: Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke

Narrated by: John Lee

Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history.Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?

Bisesa's questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun's core - an anomaly that has no natural cause, evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now, plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition, in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life through a bombardment of deadly radiation.

Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort. And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...

©2005 Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

much better than the first book in the series

I really think this book is worth the time you get bored in the first book of this series.
It's more about science, engineering, physics and astronomy.
just loved it and going forward to the third book.
the narrator is superb in this one.

Amazing Old School Imaginative Sci Fi

Amazing Old School Imaginative Sci Fi. Better than book one. Brevity is the soul of wit.

Second book of an excellent series

As with the first of this series; I couldn’t put it down. I rarely maintain interest in entire series of books. I am eagerly starting the third. If you love science , world history, philosophy. History of world religions, all wrapped up into a package of science fiction tied with a bow of superb character development and writing, then this is for you.

Excellent book

I kinda love how they refer to the math in a way that you want to do it yourself

Short story at best..

This book felt like paper cuts on my nerves. Skip to Book 3 and save yourself from a filler story to make a trilogy. Very poor story.