(Found) People lived in glass houses/tech allowed everyone knew everything about one another

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Novel- Read as a paperback in the 2000's. Was not old. People lived in glass houses (even bathroom) because the tech allowed everyone to know everything about each other. However, some people hid in black clocks. There was also an element of time travel to the past.
 
I haven't read it (in the Pile) but it naturally makes me think of Charles Stross' Glasshouse.
 
J-Sun said:
I haven't read it (in the Pile) but it naturally makes me think of Charles Stross' Glasshouse.
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It does sound like Glasshouse (which I read quite a while ago, so I may be mistaken).
 
Thank you but it wasn't glass house. It was a collaboration of two authors. I think one author started it and then a relative (maybe son) finished it.
 
No worries, that's what mods are for! All done now. (And don't rush away now you've found your book -- stay and join in conversations about SF!)
 
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That is the book. Thank you!
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Just bought it (Audible) - thanks for the tip! Sounds like a great analogy for current days - where our privacy is constantly invaded by hackers, government, etc. (illegal invasions) - and only Billionaires can protect personal information.
 
Hmmm... There are two pieces named "The Light of Other Days" -- both seem to have a remote viewing theme. The first was Bob Shaw's 1966 short story about "slow glass" (Wikipedia covers that.) The second (the one we're talking about) is the Stephen Baxter novel based on a synopsys left by Arthur C. Clarke. I just barely started this and haven't read any other Baxter novels. But - so far - it's impressive. Interesting characters (and some classic Sci-Fi tropes): A rich father with a vision of creating a remote viewing device (so that he can get footage for his news network) spirits back his estranged Physicist son from Oxford(?), to join him and his half brother (Bobby), in a project to create a wormhole to anywhere in the world and then enlarge it to the point where they can stream photons (video coverage) through it. Bobby's reporter girlfriend wants to use this for surveillance to take down a crooked pastor of a mega-church.

So - quantum physics development, reminiscent of Michael Crichton's Timeline, and a remote viewing goal vaguely similar to T. L. Sherred's 1947, Hall of Fame, "E for Effort" novella (still one of my favorites). Oh... and there is a rogue moon hurtling towards Earth (although perhaps more than a century away...). The very slow ticking clock.
 
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