History Creator / StephenBaxter

* The Literature/XeeleeSequence series. Arguably his most well-known books. Set in the far future, where humans struggle for supremacy in the universe against the god-like Xeelee.

* ''Anti-Ice'', set in an alternate world where a semi-stable form of antimatter is discovered in the mid-1800s, spurring an early industrial revolution and resulting in an AlternateHistory SteamPunk world where Britain becomes a superpower with antimatter bombs at their disposal.
* ''{{Literature/Evolution}}'', a standalone novel about the evolution of humans and their ultimate fate.
* ''Literature/TheTimeShips'', an authorized sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]]. In an interesting twist, Baxter himself presents it as though [[DirectLineToTheAuthor it was taken from a lost manuscript by the Time Traveller himself]].

* ''The Massacre of Mankind'', an official sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
* ''Galaxias'', One day the sun vanishes from the sky for exactly twenty four hours, and that's just the start of humanity’s problems as it becomes clear we've attracted the attention of something powerful and alien...
* ''The thousand Earths''. In the mid 2100's an astronaut sets out in a journey that due to time dilation will take him trillions of years into the future and through all of human history...
* ''Universes''. Short story collection. Includes a few stand alone as well as stories set in the anti-ice and Flood universes.
* ''Last and first contacts''. Short story collection, as with Traces follows no particular series and collects stand alone stories.

** ''Titan'' - A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (when it was written, that is) book about an expedition to Titan.
** ''Moonseed'' - A prolonged lunar exploration programme in the 70s accidentally brings a mysterious, nanoplague-like substance to Earth during a return mission. Stuff happens...

* The ''Northland'' trilogy, set in prehistoric Doggerland (called "Northland" in the novel) and focuses on the attempts of Northland's inhabitants to adapt to the rising sea levels slowly eroding its coastline.

* The ''World Engines'' duology, consisting of ''Destroyer'' (2019) and ''Creator'' (2020). These return to the multiverse of the ''Manifold'' trilogy with a different version of Reid Malenfort being revived from cold sleep on 25th century Earth to investigate a mysterious transmission apparently from his wife Emma Stoney who went missing while investigating the Mars moon Phobos nearly five hundred years earlier. Unlike ''Manifold'' the second book is a direct continuation of the first.

* ''Galaxias'', One day the sun vanishes from the sky for exactly twenty four hours, and that's just the start of humanities problems as it becomes clear we've attracted the attention of something powerful and alien...

* ''Time's Tapestry'', an AlternateHistory series.

Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is a British author known for his [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard sci-fi]] novels. He's most known for his far-future space opera series [[{{Literature/XeeleeSequence}} The Xeelee Sequence]], but he also writes a fair amount of AlternateHistory and more near-future fiction. He has a website [[http://www.stephen-baxter.com/index.html here]]. His works include:

* ''Literature/TheTimeShips'', an authorized sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]]. In an interesting twist, Baxter himself presents it as though [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis it was taken from a lost manuscript by the Time Traveller himself]].

* ''The H-Bomb Girl'', a foray into Young Adult fiction; in 1962, a young girl in Liverpool finds herself at a crossroads between various [[AlternateHistory alternate histories]] against the backdrop of the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar CubanMissileCrisis]].

A British author known for his [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard sci-fi]] novels. He's most known for his far-future space opera series [[{{Literature/XeeleeSequence}} The Xeelee Sequence]], but he also writes a fair amount of AlternateHistory and more near-future fiction. He has a website [[http://www.stephen-baxter.com/index.html here]]. His works include:

** ''Titan'' - A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (when it was written, that is) book about an expedition to Titan. But more like alternate history considering it took place from the late 90's to 2016

* ''Time's Tapestries'', an AlternateHistory series.

* ''{{Literature/The Time Ships}}'', an authorized sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]].
** In an interesting twist, Baxter himself presents it as though [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis it was taken from a lost manuscript by the Time Traveler himself]].
* ''The H-Bomb Girl'', a foray into Young Adult fiction; in 1962, a young girl in Liverpool finds herself at a crossroads between various [[AlternateHistory alternate histories]] against the backdrop of the CubanMissileCrisis.

** ''Titan'' - A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture book about an expedition to Titan. But more like alternate history considering it took place from the late 90's to 2016

** ''Titan'' - A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture book about an expedition to Titan.

* ''Anti-Ice'', set in an alternate world where a semi-stable form of antimatter is discovered in the mid-1800's, spurring an early industrial revolution and resulting in an AlternateHistory SteamPunk world where Britain becomes a superpower with antimatter bombs at their disposal.

* ''Literature/The Time Ships'', an authorized sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]].

* ''The Time Ships'', an authorized sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]].

** ''ManifoldSpace'' is the opposite, with the universe actually ''brimming'' with intelligent life, but the reason we've never seen it before is because it is periodically "sterilized" by natural cosmological events.

* The ''Time Odyssey'' series, in collaboration with ArthurCClarke. Intended as an "[[InsistentTerminology orthoquel]]"[[note]]i.e. AlternateUniverse[[/note]] to Clarke's famous ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' series.

* ''[[{{Literature/Evolution}} Evolution]]'', a standalone novel about the evolution of humans and their ultimate fate.
* ''The Time Ships'', an authorized sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]].

* ''Literature/TheLongEarth'', a trilogy co-written with Creator/TerryPratchett about the sudden discovery of parallel Earths.

** ''Literature/{{Titan}}'' - A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture book about an expedition to Titan.
** ''Literature/{{Moonseed}}'' - A prolonged lunar exploration programme in the 70s accidentally brings a mysterious, nanoplague-like substance to Earth during a return mission. Stuff happens...

* ''The Time Ships'', an authorized sequel to HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine'' that incorporates more modern science fiction concepts, such as Dyson Spheres and time travel creating [[AlternateHistory branching timelines]].

* ''Literature/TheLongEarth'', a two book series co-written with Creator/TerryPratchett about the sudden discovery of parallel Earths.

* The ''Literature/Proxima'' series, which covers the human colonization of Proxima.

** The Literature/Proxima series, which covers the human colonization of Proxima.

* The ''Time Odyssey'' series, in collaboration with ArthurCClarke. Intended as an "[[InsistentTerminology orthoquel]]"[[hottip:*:i.e. AlternateUniverse]] to Clarke's famous ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' series.

* ''Anti-Ice'', set in an alternate world where a semi-stable form of antimatter is discovered in the mid-1800's, spurning an early industrial revolution and resulting in an AlternateHistory SteamPunk world where Britain becomes a superpower with antimatter bombs at their disposal.