Book description
The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be
incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down
and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must
unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the
construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a
deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure?
Extinction. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre Arthur
C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he
served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of
flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered Kings college, London
taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class
honours. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he
has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers Prize and the
Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination
with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which
was based on his story, The Sentinel. He has lived in Sri Lanka since
1956. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation.
Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US,
Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and
Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.
