Arthur C Clarke amazes me with how his writing decades ago still feels fresh and modern when reading it today. The book was clearly written with the idea of exploring the hard sciences of the event, but despite this and the paragraph here and there exploring the minutia of the science involved, the book never lost sight of the human element.
The threat was always vague and the stakes too undefined to ever be a thrilling read. Instead it was a mostly calm exploration of an alien artifact that felt like it could actually happen and how it might take place.
It was a solid, enjoyable read.
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