Line #18 Creator/StephenBaxter


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2	->''"Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns."''
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4	Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is a British author known for his 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:
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6	!!!Series
7	* [[index]]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.[[/index]]
8	* The ''NASA'' Trilogy, a loose trilogy of three thematically similar AlternateHistory novels that center on spaceflight and space exploration, particularly that of NASA origin. Features several [[MundaneDogmatic modern-day and near future what-ifs]].
9	** [[index]]''Literature/{{Voyage}}'' - Alternate spaceflight developments between the 1960s and 1980s, culminating in a ([[MundaneMadeAwesome not easily earned]]) manned mission to Mars in the mid 1980s.[[/index]]
10	** ''Literature/{{Titan}}'' - A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (when it was written, that is) book about an expedition to Titan.
11	** ''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...
12	* The ''Manifold'' series. Three what-if novels concerning the UsefulNotes/FermiParadox, with each presenting a different resolution to the paradox. Notable in that all three novels feature the same cast but are set in [[AlternateContinuity Alternate Continuities]].
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14	** ''Literature/ManifoldTime'' posits that humanity is the only intelligent species in the universe.
15	** ''Literature/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.
16	** ''Literature/ManifoldOrigin'' is set in a ''multiverse'' that is full of intelligent life, but each universe only contains one intelligent species.
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18	** ''Phase Space'' is a collection of short stories related to the series.
19	* The ''Time Odyssey'' series, in collaboration with Creator/ArthurCClarke. Intended as an "[[InsistentTerminology orthoquel]]"[[note]]i.e. AlternateUniverse[[/note]] to Clarke's famous ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' series.
20	* The ''Mammoth'' trilogy. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's about mammoths]].
21	* The ''Northland'' trilogy, an AlternateHistory series in which humans were able to prevent Doggerland from being flooded.
22	* ''Literature/TimesTapestry'', an AlternateHistory series. The first book is called "Emperor".
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24	* ''Literature/TheLongEarth'', a series co-written with Creator/TerryPratchett about the sudden discovery of parallel Earths.
25	* The ''Literature/{{Flood}}'' series, about an [[TheGreatFlood apocalyptic global flood]]. Currently has two novels, ''Flood'' and ''Ark'', as well as several short stories.
26	* The ''Literature/{{Proxima}}'' series, which covers the human colonization of Proxima.
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28	* The ''Literature/WorldEngines'' duology, consisting of ''Destroyer'' (2019) and ''Creator'' (2020). These return to the multiverse of the ''Manifold'' trilogy with a different version of Reid Malenfant 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.
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30	!!!Standalone Works
31	* ''Traces'', a collection of 21 short stories. It is not related to any particular series by Baxter.
32	* ''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.
33	* [[index]]''Literature/{{Evolution}}'', a standalone novel about the evolution of humans and their ultimate fate.
34	* ''Literature/TheLightOfOtherDays'', co-authored with Creator/ArthurCClarke; after the development of technology capable of finding and stabilizing micro-wormholes between any two points, it's realized that wormholes can reach through time as well, allowing a window into the past.
35	* ''Literature/TheTimeShips'',[[/index]] 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]].
36	* ''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 Cuban Missile Crisis]].
37	* ''The Wheel of Ice'', a ''Series/DoctorWho'' novel featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
38	* ''The Medusa Chronicles'', co-authored with Creator/AlastairReynolds; sequel to Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''A Meeting with Medusa''.
39	* ''The Massacre of Mankind'', an official sequel to Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898''.
40	* ''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 that we've attracted the attention of something powerful and alien...
41	* ''The Thousand Earths''. In the mid-2100s, 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...
42	* ''Universes''. Short story collection. Includes a few standalone as well as stories set in the anti-ice and Flood universes.
43	* ''Last and first contacts''. Short story collection, as with Traces follows no particular series and collects standalone stories.
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