stephen baxter

At the end, he gets back in his time machine leaves, destination and fate unknown. Where do you think he went ? And , if you were in his situation , where you had journeyed . Would you have gone to the past or future ? If it were me, I would have gone back into that bleak future...

This is a big book, but also, like the other 2 books in the series (Voyage, Titan) deals quite a lot with personal relationships on earth before getting on with the business of the story. (Piece of moon rock is brought to the earth and something else came with it) But its worth holding out for...

c2000 book series. The character (forgot his name) is the protagonist in each book but the settings are different. The titles were all like ?????:Time or ?????:Space ( or maybe vis- a -versa). The different settings were all VAST…for example, the time one had the character experiencing such...

The third book in the Long Earth series, Long Mars continues the story of humanity’s discovery, exploration and exploitation of the multi-universe parallel Earths and now Marses (as a word never designed to be pluralised this is what the authors went with). It’s hard to know what more to say as...

Proxima is, ostensibly, about humanity’s first attempts at colonizing a planet in a different solar system. I say “ostensibly” because, really, the story is also about tensions between the United Nations, which has control of Mercury and part of Mars, and China, which controls part of Mars and...

The Medusa Chronicles is a sequel to Arthur C Clarke’s novella A Meeting with Medusa (which I quickly read before this book), and I suspect you are always going to be taking a chance writing a sequel today (2016) to a story written so long ago (1971) and I think that this book suffers from that...

This is quite a book, written in 1997 but set between 2004 and 2016 (and beyond...) Not only is the book quite big at 580 pages but it presents a big concept. In some ways it's like his earlier book 'Voyage', which describes a prospective trip to Mars. Titan is similar with all its politics and...

Gulliverzone Stephen Baxter Starscape, May 2005, $5.99 ISBN: 0765349418 February 7, 2027 is World Peace Day celebrating two decades of people embracing give peace a chance as espoused by the World Peace Movement. Globally people look forward to galas to attend. Sarah has many events to choose...

Transcendent Stephan Baxter Del, Rex, Dee 2005, $25.95, 488 pp. ISBN 0345451919 Earth in the year 2027 is a different place to be due to the climatic changes; the poles melted, the oceans rose and coasalt flooding changes the geography of the planet. The planet seems to be in its death throes...

The Space Opera Renaissance David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer Tor, Jul 2006, $34.95 ISBN: 0765306174 In the Introduction to this superb anthology, space opera was coined by Bob Tucker in 1941: “In these hectic days of phrase coning, we offer one. Westerns are called “horse operas,” the...

Emperor Stephen Baxter Ace, Jan 2007, $24.95 ISBN: 0441014666 In 4 BC, Brica struggles with a long difficult labor; as the baby finally begins to come out of the womb, the weakened female begins babbling in Latin, a tongue she does not know. A druid, the only non-kin, attending the birth writes...

Conqueror Stephen Baxter Ace, Aug 2007, $24.95 ISBN: 9780441014965 As predicted by the the Menologium of the Blessed Isolde Prophecy, invincible Rome is no more especially in the remote areas like Britannia (see EMPEROR); gone by AD 409. These nine stanzas, written on parchment in the Old...

Navigator Stephen Baxter Ace, Jan 2008, $24.95 ISBN: 9780441015597 I Musta’rib AD 1085. In northern Spain, English teenager Robert wants to become a holy warrior until he meets and falls in love with intelligent Muslim Moraima. At the same time, scholar Father Sihtric and the Vizier of Cordoba...

Firstborn Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter Del Rey, Dec 2007, $25.95 ISBN 9780345491572 The Firstborn previously attacked the earth with a solar flare; this essence refuses to allow any sentient race to live that might have the potential one day to be an adversarial rival. The Earth...

Flood Stephen Baxter Roc, May 2009, $24.95 ISBN: 9780451462718 In 2016 in Barcelona, the religious fanatics still hold four hostages snatched several years ago. USAF Captain Lily Brooke, British military officer Piers Michaelmas, NASA scientist Gary Boyle; and Helen Gray are losing hope of ever...

The Light of Other Days Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter Tor, Dec 8 2009, $14.99 ISBN: 9780765322876 In the twenty-first century, Hidamani Patel had escaped the impoverished North Sea that has encroached on the fifty-second state England to make a fortune in the Forty-eight as Hiram...

Ark Stephen Baxter Roc, May 4 2010, $24.95 ISBN: 9780451463319 The unabated Flood spreads rapidly across continents with only the highest elevations of land remaining. In America, the Rocky Mountains is the last stronghold not under water, but that is turning into an archipelago. In 2025 as six...

Stone Spring Stephen Baxter Roc, Nov 1 2011, $25.95 ISBN: 9780451464187 In7300 BC on Northland, fourteen year old Ana like others in her community still struggle with the Year of the Great Sea that left so many dead a year ago. Ana, whose mother is dead and father presumed dead, believes more...

The Long Earth Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Harper, Jun 19 2012, $25.99 ISBN: 9780062067753 The Stepping process has enabled mankind to cross into a seemingly infinite number of parallel Earths. None of these alternate earths contain human life while the farther you journey from the earth...

Bronze Summer Stephen Baxter Roc, Nov 6 2012, $26.95 ISBN 9780451464798 Millennia have passed since the Year of the Great Sea led to teenagers Ana and Novu leading the construction of the Great Wall. By the Year of the Fire Mountain, Northland has become a prosperous pat of the continent rather...