Five hundred years after a handful of human starship travelers got lost in a hostile universe, their descendants are still struggling for survival. As hard as life is on The Raft — a platform remnant of the ship's hull — it's even harder in The Belt — a string of shacks circling the iron-rich core of a dead star. Every Belter has heard the story of the legendary starship but most of them don't believe it. But Rees, a lowly mine-rat, does. He wonders why the sky is angry red instead of the blue his parents remembered. Why food from The Raft gets less and less nutritious. Why fewer and fewer stars form every day. In his quest to find answers, Rees travels from boyhood to manhood, from the outermost edges of his world into its mysterious heart. And along the way he discovers there's more at stake than his simple curiosity: life in his enigmatic universe is about to become impossible…
Michael Poole’s constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS — and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very of the cosmos.
Isolated from the passage of time, a small colony of mammoths survives into the 20 century until their discovery by a group of shipwrecked sailors threatens their existence. Baxter combines well-researched details on the physical habits of prehistoric mammoths with an anthropomorphic touch to delineate the personalities of his protagonists. Fans of the prehistoric novels of Jean Auel and the animal-based fantasies of Richard Adams should enjoy this tale of triumph over adversity.
‘If they existed, they would be here’ ENRICO FERMI. In the second volume in Stephen Baxter's epic Manifold Series Reid Malenfant inhabits the universe Malenfant kick-started in TIME (‘science fiction at its best’ FHM) — and ‘they’ are here. When Nemoto, a Japanese researcher on the Moon, discovers evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence in the solar system, the Fermi 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!
Powie?? napisana zosta?a z pozycji pojmowania kosmosu przez cz?owieka ko?ca dwudziestego wieku i zdobyczy wsp??czesnej nauki; jest nowoczesn? reinterpretacj? wizji Wellsa. Podr??nik w czasie u Baxtera zmierza ku niesko?czono?ci. Jego zadanie jest daleko wa?niejsze niz tylko uratowanie Weeny: pr?cz tajemnicy przysz?o?ci musi tak?e rozwi?za? paradoksy otaczaj?cego go ?wiata.Autoryzowana kontynuacja Herberta George’a Wellsa.
A sequel to by H. G. Wells, it was officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original’s publication.Won:British SF Association Award in 1995John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel in 1996Philip K. Dick Award in 1996Nominated for:Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996Locus Award for Best SF Novel in 1996Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1996
is set on Earth, the inner part of the Solar System and various other universes onwards from the 21 century. The novel covers a wide range of topics, including the Doomsday argument, Fermi paradox, genetic engineering, and humanity’s extinction.The book begins at the end of space and time, when the last descendants of humanity face an infinite but pointless existence. Due to proton decay the physical universe has collapsed, but some form of intelligence has survived by embedding itself into a lossless computing substrate where it can theoretically survive indefinitely. However, since there will never be new ...
First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Earth became a vast factory for alien foodstuffs. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity’s greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through ...
The book depicts a manned mission to Titan — the enigmatic moon of Saturn — which has a thick atmosphere and a chemical makeup that some think may contain the building blocks of life.Paula Benacerraf is appointed to oversee the dismantling of the Shuttle fleet after another disaster. Instead, she listens to the scientist, Rosenberg, who wants to explore the life Cassini discovers on Titan. Humans are hurled to the edge of the Solar System. To the edge, also, of sanity.Nominated for Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998.
Set in the same vast time scale and future as (2003) and (2004), can be read independently. Michael Poole is a middle-aged engineer in the year of the digital millennium (2047) and Alia is a recognizably human (but evolved) adolescent born on a starship half a million years later. Michael still dreams of space flight, but the world and its possibilities are much diminished due to environmental degradation. The gifted teen has studied Michael’s life, for the Poole family played a pivotal role in creating the human future, and thus her world. Through seemingly supernatural apparitions, Alia bridges time to communicate ...
Wyobra?cie sobie wszech?wiat, w kt?rym grawitacja jest miliard razy wi?ksza od tej, kt?r? znamy; istoty ludzkie wytwarzaj? silne pole grawitacyjne; gwiazdy znajduj? si? blisko siebie i gasn? ju? w ci?gu roku...Wiele stuleci przed wydarzeniami opisanymi w statek z lud?mi na pok?adzie przypadkowo dosta? si? do owego wszech?wiata przez dziur? w czasoprzestrzeni. Za?odze uda?o si? prze?y?, gdy? zanurzy?a si? w ob?ok gazu otaczaj?cy czarn? dziur?. Pi??set lat p??niej potomkowie owych astronaut?w wci?? walcz? o przetrwanie, podzieleni na dwie g??wne ...
Ironically, you’ll probably appreciate most after you’ve put it down. The prolific and acclaimed Stephen Baxter has always been praised for his imaginative and conscientious use of science, and is no exception. This collection of short stories will leave you ruminating for days over the sprawl of ideas, worlds, and life forms Baxter has woven together.Filling in the gaps on Baxter’s ambitious, almost audacious, 10-million-year timeline called the “Xeelee Sequence,” is a collection of revised, previously published short stories that bridges together his popular novels set in this same “future history” — , , , and . Baxter’s ...
The book depicts a manned mission to Mars as it might have been in another timeline, one where John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963. is the epic saga of America’s might-have-been — a powerful, sweeping novel imaginatively created from true lives and real events. NASA, the Saturn rocket, and historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters that only a world-class novelist could bring to life: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first ...
