I have just finished "light of Other Days" by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, the Grand Master and the new pretender to the throne, weave an intriguing tale around the hypothesis that Man develops a remote viewing technology using Space-Time Wormholes, the ubiquity of this new technology leads to complete loss of privacy. By extension, not only can the Wormholes view events many light minutes away it can (as Space and Time are interchangeable) look into the past, but, as it is impossible (according to Einstein) to send data into past it is also impossible to view the Future. All this extrapolation and investigation into the past (following the devolution of one of the protagonists via his Female ancestors, all the way back to single celled organisms, through many Catastrophes, to, finally, a Methane Breathing Intelligent form of life prior to a really BIG extinction event) takes place in the shadow of "WormWood" a Killer Asteroid discovered by Amateur Astronomers which WILL wipe out life on Earth, unless we can do something about it.

Very well written, but can see lots of parallels between this and Arthur C.'s other recent collaboration (with Michael Kube McDowell) Trigger, at least in philosophical terms. Shares less with the Earthquake thriller he wrote (with another Hollywood Screen writer) a couple of year's earlier.