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Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter

Author Biography & Works

Stephen Baxter is an English hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.

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Books by Stephen Baxter

Proxima

Proxima

(Proxima) Start here

The story of how we colonise a new world, and the discovery of an ancient secret that will change our understanding of our place in the Universe for ever. Sequel...

Ultima

Ultima

(Proxima)

Stephen Baxter's Proxima was one of the great science fiction novels of 2013. It told of a group of convicts who are shipped out to the newly discovered world of...

The Time Ships

The Time Ships

1995 was the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and in celebration Stephen Baxter produced one of the best novels in his long and...

Phase Space

Phase Space

(Manifold)

Phase Space is a Stephen Baxter short story collection set in the Manifold series.

Titan

Titan

(Nasa)

From back cover Eos paperback March 2001: HUMANKIND'S GREATEST -- AND LAST -- ADVENTURE! Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. A group of...

Vacuum Diagrams

Vacuum Diagrams

(Xeelee Sequence)

Stephen Baxter is undoubtedly one of the stars of modern, scientifically literate sf, and he really stakes his claim to be one of the masters of space opera with the...

Evolution

Evolution

If Last and First Men is the most spectacular, panoramic view of the future of life in our Solar System, Evolution runs it a close second. It begins 65 million...

Reality Dust

Reality Dust

On the moons of Jupiter an escaped scientist discovers a lifeform in the ice.

Xeelee Sequence

Xeelee Sequence

(Xeelee Sequence)

A complictated sequence of stories and novels that span several billion years and includes the expansion of humanity and wars with aliens. The science is believable the world building is...

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