Stephen Baxter

Flood is the work of hard science fiction author Stephen Baxter. It describes a near future world where deep submarine seismic activity leads to seabed fragmentation, and the opening of deep subterranean reservoirs of water. Human...

In this article: Flood, Earth, United States, Jupiter, and Climate change

...great battle between Baryonic and Dark matter lifeforms. Examples of novels written in this style: Ring '', ''Timelike Infinity. Stephen Baxter at the Science-Fiction-Tage NRW in Dortmund, Germany, March 1997 His present-day Earth...

In this article: Evolution, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Big Finish Productions, Last Contact, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Manifold: Origin, and Manifold

Weaver is an alternate history science fiction work authored by Stephen Baxter. It is the fourth and final novel in his Times Tapestry quartet, which deals with psionic broadcast of history-altering content within trans-temporal lucid...

In this article: Operation Sea Lion, Kurt Godel, and Albert Einstein

...and sending a crew to colonise a new Earth. How, who and where are the central concerns of the first half of Ark, Stephen Baxter's sequel to his well-received Flood, and the interstellar voyage itself, the second. Baxter is the...

In this article: Raymond Khoury, Arthur C Clarke, Cattle, God, Flood, and J G Ballard

...The Novel. James A. Michener covered Israel's even longer history in The Source. But no one, really, can get a grander sweep than Stephen Baxter does in Evolution. For he starts in the age of dinosaurs, with a little rat-like primate ancestor...

In this article: Evolution, London, Green politics, Extinction, Edward Rutherford, The Source, James A. Michener, and Israel

...has yet to be reclaimed), the capital falls to a Dominion-backed army coup. The not-too-distant future is the territory of Stephen Baxter's science thriller "Flood" (Roc, $24.95). The book opens with the release of a group of...

In this article: Flood, Archaeology, Leasing, and Conscription

Between 2007 and 2008 Stephen Baxter produced six novels. It seems not unreasonable to suggest that this is too many. It would appear that the publishing climate that once saw SF authors churning out dozens of short stories a year in order...

In this article: Flood, Olaf Stapledon, Transcendent, Earth, Coca-Cola, Transhumanism, Entropy, and Climate change

...expect from two titans at that stage in their life, not having anything to prove anymore. It lacks some of the energy that Stephen Baxter brought to the table in the Time's Odyssey books. (Which, now that I think about it, also kind of...

In this article: Arthur C. Clarke, John Scalzi, Ain't It Cool News, and Geoffrey A. Landis

...by Mike Resnick; A Small Room in Koboldtown by Michael Swanwick; Who's Afraid of Wolf 359 by Ken MacLeod; 'Last Contact' by Stephen Baxter (declined to allow his story to be used) and the winner, Tideline by Elizabeth Bear (Thanks, Erik!) I...

In this article: Ken MacLeod, Last Contact, Itunes, Distant Replay, Tideline, Hugo Award, Boing Boing, and Elizabeth Bear

Everthing I've ever read by Clarke has been worth reading, with Childhood's End at the summit. His recent collaborations with Stephen Baxter were fascinating. When it came to easy-to-read science, Azimov was my guy Rita, there's no...

In this article: Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sawyer, Childhood's End, Reason Magazine, RSS Feed, Locus, Plaza Sesamo, and Sesame Street