This is a book for which the term 'so so' could have been coined. It's not bad, far from it; but then it's not all that great either. Time's Eye reads very much like the first of a series, which it is; but wouldn't it have been possible for the story to have more point and why are characters just forgotten about when they are no longer useful? It also might have been better for the authors to have avoided a couple of heavy-handed references to Clarke's earlier '2001 A Space Odyssey'.
It may be worth considering that this hardback edition comes with a free CD-ROM containing a couple of essays, a rather pointless interview with Clarke and Baxter and two Baxter novels ('Evolution' and 'Manifold Time'). The combined cost of the paper versions of the two novels is about £9.50 which considerably offsets the £13.20 cost of Time's Eye and maybe makes it a good economic choice for Baxter fans.
Del Ray, 335 pages
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