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Stephen Baxter
A new standalone SF epic from a master of the genre
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The combined crews of crashed spaceships from different realities must work together to save themselves, escape the planet and discover how the World Engineers have altered the Solar System, and…
The end of the world is inevitable. We do not accept it.
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On the far outskirts of the solar system, one small ship is about to discover something amazing. And it wants to talk . . .
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One of the great SF writers returns with a collection of stories including a brand new novella! From the co author (with Terry Pratchett) of the LONG EARTH series.
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The highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells’s The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke.
In the far future, after an alien threat destroyed Neptune, the Solar System has been engineered into a single, defensive fortress. People have found a way to live within that…
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This is the story of SILVERHAIR, LONGTUSK and ICEBONES, Stephen Baxter's epic drama of nature's behemoth: the mammoth.
The award-winning author of Evolution returns with the first volume in the Destiny’s Children trilogy about an enigmatic religious group that has prospered below the streets of Rome for nearly…
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And then young Phee Laws, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves caught in a mystery that…
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Nominated for the 2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Baxter’s novel looks ahead to the year 2010, where after more than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and…
This thrilling sequel to Manifold: Time finds Reid Malenfant, fueled by curiosity, venturing to the far edge of the solar system. There, he discovers a strange alien artifact: a gateway…
Originally published: London: Gollancz, 2017.
Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. They make a vow to always watch out for one another. But they never expected to find that…
The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of…
From the bestselling author of Ark and Flood comes a new saga of a world that could have become our own. OA learned, imaginative, bold, sweeping, wonderful evocation of life…
The concluding volume of the acclaimed Time’s Tapestry series. In the early days of World War II, the Nazis have a secret plan, far grander than simply subjugating an enemy…
A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions–all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come. A multigenerational story…
Planets like Proxima Centauri could be habitable and could mean the never-ending existence of humanity, but first it must be colonized and no one wants to be a settler. Since…
A hard-SF saga set against the background of the birth of the solar system, and based on the latest planetary science: a human story of loss and salvation
The astonishing new SF novel from multi-award winning author Stephen Baxter - a dizzying exploration of alternate universes and deep time.
More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation.
Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind.
The story of evolution. A novel that tells the story of life on Earth…
An epic wall has been built to keep the sea out. And the history of the world has been changed. A superb alternate history from an SF master.
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The Xeelee return in this long awaited collection of stories including a brand new novella! From the co author (with Terry Pratchett) of the LONG EARTH series.
One of the world’s bestselling science fiction authors returns to the series which made his name. The Xeelee are back for the last time…
The War of the Worlds, the best alien invasion novel ever written, gets a superb sequel from the man who knows Wells’ work best, the author of the official sequel…
What if John F. Kennedy survived?
Signs of life have been found on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
In 1660 England was already prosperous, free, civilized, and the possessor of the makings of an empire. In the century to follow, the island nation became the world’s greatest power…
Focusing on the family of Ealdorman Leofwine, which retained power throughout an extraordinary period of political and dynastic upheaval, Stephen Baxter reassesses fundamental elements of late Anglo-Saxon government and society…
The final book of the Manifold trilogy opens as astronaut Reid Malenfant flies over the African continent to examine an alien red moon that has emerged to eclipse Earth’s moon…
The beginning of a new trilogy from perhaps the most significant SF writer of the 21st century and co-author with Terry Pratchett of the Long Earth books.
The second of Baxter’s DESTINY’S CHILDREN series moves the story into the distant future and a grim vision of inter-galactic war.
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A thrilling new series of counter-factual historical thrillers from an SF master and co-author, with Terry Pratchett, of the Long Earth books.
The final volume in Baxter’s keynote series Destiny’s Children.
Third in a thrilling new series of counter-factual historical thrillers from an SF master.
In FLOOD Baxter drowned the world, in ARK he shows that mankind’s future is no less perilous.
From the physics of journeys into deep space to the chemistry of anti gravity unobtainium, and from Pandora’s extraordinary flora and fauna to the possibility of transferring consciousness, Baxter reveals…
From Terry Pratchett’s co-author on the Long Earth books comes the ultimate disaster novel - the world is drowning and there is nowhere left on earth to go.
The author of Flux and Anti-Ice, and the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Wells, Heinlein, and Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks…
