Notes
Time's Eye, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

The first part of the A Time Odyssey series.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 5th printing of the 2005 Gollancz paperback edition, ISBN 057507647X. Cover illustration by Terry Pastor.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
1885, the NW frontier. Rudyard Kipling witnesses a bizarre encounter between the British Army and a piece of impossibly advanced technology: a hovering sphere, mysteriously watchful. And then, shockingly, a helicopter from 2037 comes over the hill.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have disappeared – as if they had never been. Nothing is as it was. The castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world. A journey to a devastating truth. For if history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us have dreamed.

Mankind's odyssey in time has begun.

'The adventure is rousing and I can’t imagine anyone finishing this book and not wondering what comes next'
New York Times

'You won’t set the book down to eat or sleep or work if you can help it'
Chicago Tribune