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Raft
Stephen Baxter's first novel, Raft is set in a universe
where the force of gravity is ten million times stronger than in
our own. Hundreds of years ago a human crew blundered into this
realm, where their bodies have perceptible gravity and stars last
only a year. But their improvised home - the Raft - is in danger...
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Timelike Infinity
Humanity had reached the stars... and been thrown back to Earth
by the alien Qax. Then an artefact from before the Qax occupation
returns to the solar system - an artefact that may offer a
doorway through time itself.
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Anti-Ice
Stephen Baxter's first Alternate History novel, Anti-Ice
is set in a Victorian world whose technology and politics have
been radically altered by the discovery of an astonishingly
powerful new energy source.
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Flux
Dura is ten microns tall, made of nucleonic matter, sees sound,
smells photons and swims against magnetic fields. For Dura lives
inside a neutron star. But her incredible world is torn apart
as she learns of the true role of her engineered race in
Humanity's millennia-long war against the godlike Xeelee.
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Ring
Bolder's Ring: the greatest engineering marvel of the Xeelee,
the enigmatic race that dominated the span and history of the
Universe. Now, facing a plague that is destroying the stars,
a group of humans voyage to the heart of the Xeelee's greatest
mystery.
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The Time Ships
Perhaps Stephen Baxter's most acclaimed novel to date,
The Time Ships is far more than just being the
authorized sequel to H G Wells' classic The Time Machine.
An epic in its own right, it expands Wells' vision to a truly
cosmological scale, comprehensively spanning the developing
scope and style of science fiction from Wells' time to our own.
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Voyage
In Voyage, Stephen Baxter explores at novel length a
recurring theme of his short fiction: how might the space programme
have turned out differently? In the aftermath of Apollo 11, Nixon,
spurred on by the crippled ex-President Kennedy, commits the USA
to a manned landing on Mars...
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Titan
In 2004, the triumph of the discovery of evidence of life on
Saturn's largest moon is eclipsed by the tragedy of a shuttle
crash that threatens to end the US space programme. Can it be
salvaged by a last-ditch mission to uncover the mysteries of
Titan - or has the decline gone too far?
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Vacuum Diagrams
Much of Stephen Baxter's short fiction, and four of his novels
(Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring and,
tangentially, Raft) have been set within the
Universe-spanning Xeelee Sequence. Vacuum Diagrams
collects the Xeelee short fiction, much of it in print for
the first time since its intial appearance in small press magazines.
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Traces
Stephen Baxter's second short fiction collection, Traces
brings together ten years' of his best work from magazines
such as Interzone.
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Gulliverzone
February 7th, 2027. It is World Peace Day, and access to the
infinite worlds of the Web is free. Including Gulliverzone, the
Web's best theme park. But young Metaphor is about to get more in
her free day than she bargained for...
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Moonseed
The Apollo astronauts brought back five hundred kilos of Moon
rocks. Thirty years later, it emerges that they also brought
back something else... A thrilling mixture of disaster novel
and near-future space exploration, Moonseed is a
blockbuster that grips the reader from its outset to its literally
shattering conclusion.
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Webcrash
January 4th 2028 should have been just another day in the
myriad worlds of the Web. Until the blast of energy from
the sky collapsed networks around the world - and trapped
Metaphor in virtual worlds that are suddenly all too real.
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Manifold: Time
Reid Malenfant is certain of two things: that Earth is doomed;
and that Humanity can be saved. But to put his ideas into
practice will involve an incredible journey through not just
space but time itself.
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Mammoth: Silverhair
Silverhair and her fellow mammoths have survived; survived
the ice ages, and survived - just - the coming of Man. But,
in their remote Siberian refuge, they are about to face their
greatest challenge of all.
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Manifold: Space
The second volume of the epic Manifold series.
In a cosmos suddenly teeming with life, Reid
Malenfant makes contact with the alien Gaijin in
an attempt to uncover the truth behind a mystery
that spans universes.
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Mammoth: Longtusk
Separated from his herd and family, the young bull
Longtusk embarks on a journey that will take him to
the ends of his ice-bound world, and to a place in
Mammoth legend.
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The Light Of Other Days
Media mogul Hiram Patterson wanted a way to see
through the thickest walls. But he didn't expect
being able to see through the barrier of time itself
- or the social shockwaves his new tool would unleash.
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Deep Future
In his first non-fiction science book, Stephen Baxter explores the future of
the human race, both on Earth and far beyond it in both space and time.
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Mammoth: Icebones
On a future, part-terraformed Mars, the Mammoth saga reaches its epic
conclusion.
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Omegatropic
Non-fiction and fiction by Stephen Baxter, including reviews, articles and
talks from conferences and conventions. Published by the British
Science Fiction Association, Omegatropic presents a wide range of
Stephen's writing, much of it not collected elsewhere.
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Manifold: Origin
The third and concluding Manifold volume. The appearance of the Red
Moon brings disaster and chaos to Earth - and sets astronaut Reid Malenfant
on an incredible journey.
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