Talk:The Light of Other Days

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is part of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to narrative novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the General Project Discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.

Start

This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Article Grading:
The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

Tasks you can do:

This article lacks an infobox, {{Infobox Book}} which is part of the standard display of novel information developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels and also Wikipedia:WikiProject Books. You can help by copying the "source code" into the attached article, and filling in the information yourself, or by providing the following information here on the Talk page so that someone else can construct the box:

~title of novel~
~cover image of novel fair use~
~image caption to give edition details~
~author of novel~
~country of publication~
~language of original novel~

~illustrator for novel~
~cover artist name for novel~
~novel genre~
~publisher for novel~
~dd month yyyy~

Print (~binding~)
~pagecount pp (~binding~ edition)~
~ISBN ~999999999~ (~hardcover~ edition)~
~prior book in series if relevant~
~subsequent book in series if relevant~

Edit this message

Did anyone else here get the distinct feeling that Clarke and Baxter were kinda fighting over who get to end the story there at the end? I think Baxter won, and then I think he ran out the door to the publishers before Clarke could catch him. -Litefantastic 01:36, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a pretty silly book. :-) - Omegatron 15:00, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

See also: The Dead Past by Isaac Asimov. --68.44.13.236 04:33, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Er, it's pretty silly that this page lacks mention that the title was originally that of Bob Shaw's classic slow glass story "Light of Other Days", which is even mentioned on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Shaw

Also, it may or may not be notable that in the book, the commonly accepted term for wormholes used to view the past is "stapledons". 68.44.13.236 04:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mergefrom

I have added {{Mergeto}} tags to three related articles, because they were about three characters from the novel (who have no importance outside of that novel) and which were merely regurgitated plot summaries. Those articles are: