I finally got around to buying and reading this book, a collaboration by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, and a continuation of the Time Odyssey series (started with The Light of Other Days, or something like that).

It was excellent. I think I’ve said bother that I don’t usually like it when books go backwards and forwards between different characters, but these two manage it well and the story still managed to flow well. The characters were interesting and well-realised. There wasn’t too much physics and stuff, which is always good by me (the first stuff of Baxter’s that I read was a bit too science-heavy for me) – although there were some interesting descriptions of what goes on in the sun, and why/how the ‘sunstorm’ of the title happened. I really like that they have a little appendix at the end, too, explaining where someone can go read further about some of the science and technology mentioned in the book (like space elevators – they have always fascinated me, I think since Kim Stanley Robinson and the Mars series).

Anyway, a fun book.