The concentration of energy in the Casimir gaps is increasing," Hiram said. "We're going to inject Casimir-effect negative energy into the wormholes of the quantum foam. The antigravity effects will stabilize and enlarge the wormholes. Collaborations between authors are tough, I can only think of Niven and Pournelle along with Nordhoff and Hall that wrote better books together rather than individually. I'm not sure how much of this book's flaws can be chalked up to this. However I'm not planning on reading any of the other collaborations that they did together.

Ilmselt kõlab senise kirjelduse alusel päris masendava teosena? Ehk palju autoripoolset monoloogi ja kõhnavõitu karakterid? Tegelikult mitte sinnapoolegi! ”Kaugete päevade valgus” on üks paremaid SF romaane, mida ma sel aastal lugenud olen. Ideed on tõesti haaravad ja huvitavad ja need annavad inspiratsiooni ning mõtisklusteks kütust veel päris pikalt peale lugemise lõpetamist. Vähemalt minule Baxteri visioonid ja mõtted istusid, oleksin tahtnud sel maailmas kauemgi olla ja rohkem asjadest teada saada. Seega lõpp oli mulle natuke liiga kiire, alles jõuti transhumanismi reele hüpata ja üks väga sellealane põnev idee välja käia, kui juba oligi läbi.It was a place of steel towers pointing to the sky, of enormous concrete mounds. The cosmodrome—far vaster than its western competitors—covered thousands of square kilometers of this empty land. Much of it was abandoned now, of course, and the great gantries were rusting slowly in the dry air, or else had been pulled down for scrap—with or without the consent of the authorities. Answer: When the poet tries to drift off to sleep, bittersweet memories of the past emerge, reminding him of the loss and pain he has endured. This is what is meant by the phrase “ere slumber’s chain has bound me.” The spectre of his past haunts his dreams, preventing him from falling into a restful slumber.

David Curzon is Hiram's son from his first marriage and Bobby's half-brother. His first name is derived from the Biblical character, David, who was once the king of Israel. David's research leads to the development of the WormCam and many of its subsequent advances.Clones Are People, Too: Wormcam proves that Bobby is actually a clone of Hiram, not his son. Bobby created him as a crude bid for immortality. Then, when the technology became available to interface minds, apparently changed his plan to actually transfer his mind into Bobby's body. The sun rose at last, and banished the stars: all but one, he saw, the brightest of all. It moved with a leisurely but unnatural speed across the southern sky. It was the ruin of the International Space Station: never completed, abandoned in 2010 after the crash of an aging Space Shuttle. But still the Station drifted around the Earth, an unwelcome guest at a party long over.