My interpretation is that our probe was somehow destroyed using, and by means of, a very specific local application of dark energy or aether. It was torn apart by the same force that causes the universe to expand, and somehow that force was focused on this small ship. Perhaps it could be said that this is a cosmic weapon." He continued with a smile, "Leila calls it a Q-bomb." In the third and final volume of the Time Odyssey series, *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey*, humanity once again finds itself ...

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"Star charts," he said firmly. "The true treasure of our civilization. A few books too—oh, what a horror it was that we were not able to empty the libraries! For once a book is lost to the ice, a little more of our past is gone forever. But as to my personal effects, my pots and pans, I have my own troop of slave bearers to help me with all that. They are called graduate students." Arthur C. Clarke's *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* isn't just a science fiction novel; it's a journey through time...

October 17, 2008 – ***. I dove into this one right after *Time’s Eye* and *Sunstorm*. A Time Odyssey is made up of three books: *Time's Eye* (2003), *Sunstorm* (2005), and *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* (2007). Stephen Baxter collaborated with Arthur C. Clarke on *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* shortly before Clarke passed away in 2008. Set in the same universe as Clarke’s *2001: A Space Odyssey*, Mir is like an alternate Earth, pieced together with human populations snatched from different eras. *Firs...

Objectively speaking, *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* is kind of a mess. It starts slow and clunky, the characters are straight out of central casting, and some plot points just don't add up. And yet... and yet... Arthur C. Clarke packs a ton of real science into the story (he even documents it in an afterword), and eventually, the plot picks up and completely sucked me in. The time-spliced, mosaic-world Mir, with that glacial North America teeming with Pleistocene megafauna, is pretty awesome (even...

Sadly concluding the Time Odyssey trilogy, *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* firmly solidifies the wildly disconnected first and second novels into one cohesive storyline. There are bigger stakes, believe it or not. Badder weapons, new strangeness, and a direct call-back to Clarke's Firstborn race that became noncorporeal, were the architects of intelligent life, and who were directly referenced in all the psychedelic images from *2001: A Space Odyssey*. If that doesn't get your blood pumping with al...

An ancient race unwilling to share the universe's energy with other civilizations dedicates itself to destroying any intelligence that becomes a 'competitor.' This is the premise of Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's grand saga, *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey*, chronicling humanity's struggle against the Firstborn, familiar to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith from *2001: A Space Odyssey*. The Firstborn have haunted the legendary Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing for ...

A lot of people have commented that the science in this last installment of the Time Odyssey series, *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* by Arthur C. Clarke, is foreign and difficult to understand. It wasn't for me, as I have some education in physics, but there might be problems, so you should simply accept the "strange" sentences as they are. I would place the finale somewhere between the first two books in terms of quality, and the whole series gets a good four, say 3.8, but my overall impression is ...

Like some other readers, I had a harder time getting into this book than *Time's Eye* and *Sunstorm*. I'll admit that one reason was my inability to fully grasp the scientific concepts involved. However, I also think that Stephen Baxter uses so much ink developing the technological and theoretical concepts that character development gets neglected. Nevertheless, I loved the last 70 pages or so. Once Mr. Baxter gets past the predictable fate of the Q-bomb, the story opens up into a fascinating e...

Wow... I'm seriously impressed with how this series just kept getting better. *Firstborn: A Time Odyssey* was the best of the trilogy, which is saying something because I was already really satisfied with book #2 after being a little underwhelmed by the first one.The first book (Time's Eye) felt more like science fantasy to me. (Of course, it's still Clarke & Baxter, so the science is always solid.) It reminded me of Barsoom, with an alternate Earth (called Mir) being explored, and alternate tim...