Stephen Baxter Space
Published August 2000 by Voyager at £16.99
ISBN: 0-00-225771-8
In the second volume of Stephen Baxter's epic Manifold series Reid Malenfant inhabits a mirror-image universe to that of Time ('Time is pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined' The Times). In Space life is everywhere!
'If they existed, they would be here' - this is the Fermi paradox concerning the existence of extraterrestrials. Once it confirmed Malenfant's opinion that humanity was alone in the universe. But when Nemoto, a Japanese researcher on the Moon, discovers evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence in the solar system, the same paradox provokes both Malenfant and Nemoto to question why now? Because, suddenly, there are signs of intelligent life in deep space in all directions. Deeper layers of Fermi's paradox unravel as robot-like aliens, the Gaijin, seem to be e-mailing themselves from star to star, and wherever telescopes point, far away, other alien races are destroying worlds.
In the face of this onslaught from the stars, Malenfant sets out alone in a salvaged antique spacecraft to make contact with the Gaijin. In response the Gaijin come to Earth in their beautiful silver flower-ships but not to save mankind. They trawl through the archives of human culture for their own mysterious reasons. In their wake, recreated marvels of prehistoric life once more roam the Earth, including those hominids driven to extinction by man. But the Gaijin have more questions than answers.
As other aliens approach in a blaze of destruction there is no comfort in recalling Nemoto's certainty that this has all happened before, over and over. But in the soul of Malenfant, in the dreams of the new Neanderthals, and in Nemoto's obsessive loathing of all aliens there are glimmers of hope that the cycle can be broken. Stephen Baxter is the most acclaimed, most accomplished and most ambitious of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age. ‘Britain’s foremost hard SF writer’ The Guardian Praise for Time
'Science fiction at its best' FHM
'His best book, Time spans trillions of years… a big, ambitious book, in which the weirdest of weird science is coupled with a rather touching love story… a compendium of the wild and the possible, Baxter makes of them a human story’ Dreamwatch
‘Vaulting perspectives give Time an extraordinary punch… but Baxter sees a darker truth of human nature… and keeps those huge perspectives in perspective’ Locus
‘Esoteric cosmological ideas are meshed into a fast-paced novel… it’s time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein’ Edge
About The Author Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age. Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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Stephen BaxterTime
Pbk published August 2000 by Voyager at £6.99
ISBN: 0-00-6511-82-1
In the millennium's last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a short step beyond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived... so far. DEAD RECKONING Cornelius Taine of Eschatology, Inc., mathematical genius, pursues the logic of our very existence to its inescapable end. In just 200 years our species will be wiped out. Taine's prediction is expressed in the universal language of numbers. It is elegant, sublime, irrefutable. Even evacuation from Earth will not save us from extinction. BOOTSTRAP Reid Malenfant, entrepreneur, is single-handedly reinventing the US space program as private enterprise. His company, Bootstrap, has Big Dumb Boosters ready to launch from the California desert to mine a near-Earth asteroid for its mineral wealth piloted by an enhanced squid named Sheena 5. Malenfant's vision of mankind's future in space is brutally cut short, but then Taine offers him the ultimate dream of saving the species. THE FEYNMAN RADIO Emma Stoney, Bootstrap's financial controller and Malenfant's ex-wife, is dismayed. Emma knows to what extremes Malenfant will go in pursuit of a dream. Taine is certain people of the future will try to communicate with us if there is any way to avoid the catastrophe. So, using a particle accelerator, Malenfant tunes in to Feynman Radio signals interference in the background radiation of the Big Bang. He does indeed discover a message from the future! Soon, in response, Sheena the squid is flying to a different asteroid - Cruithne, Earth's remote second moon - for very different reasons. TIME What Sheena 5 discovers on Cruithne is nothing less than a revelation: the secret reason for our existence visible at last beneath the rippled surface of time's river. Malenfant and Emma find their own lives, and their love, irrevocably bound up with the wider destiny of humanity as the continuing Feynman Radio signals, washing down over us from the future, ‘Time has one of the best time-jump sequences ever attempted, during which the protagonists witness the entire future of the universe... Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence' Guardian
'Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined... Time places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. How reassuring to know that someone at least is still looking at the stars' The Times
'Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded in doing it, but very few others. Now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks... The reaction is that which C.S. Lewis referred to when he described science fiction as the only genuine consciousness-expanding drug.' New Scientist
'Stephen Baxter proves what a cosmic thinker he is.' Washington Post Book World
'The Xeelee Sequence is cosmic-perspective science fiction of originality, high quality and great interest Baxter will be one of the major science-fiction writers of the turn of the century.' New York Review of Science Fiction
'The best SF author in Britain' SFX
'Baxter handles a complex and gripping plot with his customary aplomb ... The ending will blow your mind ... go out and buy everything that Baxter has ever written' New Scientist
'Baxter has emerged as a master of cosmological hard SF, a writer enamored of alien viewpoints and radical settings, with a sense of sublime immensities and an ingenuity at working permutations on the question of what is human' Locus About The Author Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age. Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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Stephen BaxterMammoth: Silverhair
Pbk published January 2000 by Millenium at £5.99
ISBN: 1-85798-849-3
A new epic of the imagination from 'the best SF writer in Britain' (SFX) 'A vicious wind is rising, and the ice fields to the north are shrouded in grey haze. And out of that haze something looms: a mountainous shape, seemingly too massive to move, and yet move it does. As it approaches through the obscuring mist, more of its form becomes visible: a body, covered in thick red-brown hair, rounded as an eroded rock. The head rears up. A trunk comes questing, and immense tusks sweep. Eyes open, warm brown, intense, startlingly human.
A mammoth. They have survived.'
Siberia. The present day.
The mammoths have measured the slow pulse of the seasons as the Earth spins in its stately annual dance their memories stretch back across the million year cycles of the ice sheets.
Their stories tell of the making of the world, of the great heroes and heroines of mammoth legend. They even tell of the coming of man. And, as the millennia have passed. their stories have served them well.
Until now. Until the moment when mankind discovers the last few mammoths in their remote Siberian island refuge. And seeks to finish the slaughter begun so long ago.
For the young female mammoth Silverhair it is her greatest challenge. The species is spectacularly realised, complete with a religion and culture tackled with impressive creativity. Mammoth will be followed by a sequel; look out for it - if it's anything like the original, you'll be in for a treat' SFX
'Convincing... vivid.., a rich and very rewarding read' Infinity Plus
'A compelling narrative' Time Out
'Engagingly told ... the sufferings and losses of loved ones are harrowing but the surprise finale offers an exhilarating perspective shift with implications that thrill' David Langford About The Author Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age. Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
Titles by Stephen Baxter at Amazon.co.uk
Stephen BaxterMammoth: Longtusk
Published January 2000 by Gollancz at £16.99
and £9.99
ISBN: 0575068574
and 0575068582
It is sixteen thousand years before the birth of Christ. And every human alive wakes to the calls of mammoths.
A vast sheet of ice sits on the North Pole, immense, brooding. Glaciers jut from the ice cap like claws, pulverising rock layers and carving out fjords and lakes. South of the ice, immense plains sweep around the planet, darkened by herds of mighty herbivores. And chief amongst them are countless mammoths. Secure in their ancient history, fearing no other animal, the mammoths little suspect that their time is nearly over.
Separated from his family, the young bull Longtusk begins a lonely odyssey that will take him into the heart of a new, alien culture. Captured and trained by The Lost - pale predators sweeping up from the South Longtusk faces a bleak future. But it is a future that will take him to the ends of his ice-bound world, a destiny that will see him immortalised in mammoth legend. And all the generations to come will owe everything to Longtusk - the only bull to be mentioned in the great story cycle of the mammoths. 'A stunning talent' Locus
About The Author Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age. Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
Titles by Stephen Baxter at Amazon.co.uk
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