No, I really was talking about the Baxter / Clarke book. Having now been enlighted by wikipedia (hadn't been aware of the Bob Shaw story, "slow glass" etc - shame on me), I suppose that Baxter & Clarke were giving Bob Shaw a nod. I don't know how similar the two stories are.

In B&C's story I liked what they did with the inevitable changes to peoples' attitudes to privacy - no point in shutting the curtains any more, but turning the lights off should work...