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Stephen Baxter (Author)
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Publication Date: 4 Oct 2010 | Series: Manifold 1

In the millennium’s last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a short step byond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived … so far.

Cornelius Taine of Eschatology, Inc., mathematical genius, predicts that in just 200 years our species will be wiped out. Even evacuation from Earth will not save us from extinction.

Reid Malenfant, entrepreneur, has Big Dumb Boosters ready to fly from the California desert, to be piloted by an enhanced squid named Sheena 5. When Taine offers Malenfant the ultimate dream of saving the species, Sheena’s mission is diverted to investigate Earth’s recently discovered – and very remote – second moon.

What Sheena 5 discovers there is nothing less than a revelation: the secret reason for our existence visible at last beneath the rippled surface of Time’s river. Malenfant and Taine must follow Sheena… but they are pursued by an enraged US Air and Space Force, and a mighty battle in space may cut short their hopes for the ultimate transformation of mankind.

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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Voyager; (Reissue) edition (4 Oct 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0006511821
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006511823
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 226,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stephen Baxter, Britain's foremost author of "hard" SF rooted in real physics, is renowned for thinking big. Time begins with a US entrepreneur's deceptively low-key plans to reclaim space and exploit the asteroids, bypassing NASA's bureaucracy and safety regulations. One bizarre cost-cutting measure: the "Big Dumb Booster" pilot is a genetically enhanced, intelligent squid. Then the mission is redirected following a weird mathematical prediction that humanity hasn't long to live, and a "Feynman radio" transmission from the future that highlights a particular asteroid. Here a space-time gateway opens on unimaginably distant futures, stepping far beyond the dying sun of Wells's The Time Machine to visions of a galaxy reshaped by humanity to hoard its energy ... beyond stars, beyond black holes, beyond even mass. And the emerging message, seen most clearly by a new generation of persecuted, ultra-gifted children, is that this seeming triumph--this total exploitation of our universe's possibilities--isn't good enough. A better path awaits, via a cataclysm that dwarfs mere supernova explosions... Baxter pays homage to the transformations of Clarke's Childhood's End (there's also a nod to 2001), but without the mysticism: it's all respectable, if speculative, physics. His final, devastating payoff makes sequels seem impossible. Two are planned. Rousing stuff, on a cosmic scale. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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‘Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined, Time places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. How reassuring to know that while so many authors are lying in the gutter of the information superhighway, someone at least is still looking at the stars’
The Times

‘Time is a big ambitious book… science fiction at its best’
FHM

‘In Time Baxter manages to take the most esoteric cosmological ideas and mesh them into a fast-paced novel… Probably the most thought-provoking writing you’ll read this year, it’s time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein’
Edge

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars for those new to Baxter 1 July 2009
By L. Jones
Format:Paperback
Having seen that the reviews are very mixed on here I thought I would add my opinion to the mix. The negative reviews seem to be the same in that they basically say "not as good as his other stuff", which actually says more about the strength of this guy's writing than its weakness!

This was the first Stephen Baxter book I read, picked up in an airport, never heard of him so I had no expectations. IT.BLEW.ME.AWAY! One of the best books I have ever read, Sci-Fi or otherwise. The scale of the ideas and the sheer sense of wonder and awe are something else. I would actually recommend this as the best one to read to start with. I have since read the rest of the Manifold trilogy, the 2nd (Space) I think is even better but I was expecting it to be good so it didn't blow me away as much as this.

I have since bought several copies of this book to give to like minded friends to read.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Slow to get going, but as "hard" a sci-fi as you could ever want 6 Jun 2009
By M. Appleton
Format:Paperback
I'm a proper nerd when it comes to sci-fi - I'll take obscure and esoteric theories over plodding character development every time. Time, therefore, was very appealing.

A strange artifact is discovered on an asteroid near Earth, and is found by a remote probe to be a portal that allows jumps of billions of years into the future. Soon after, a kind of super-intelligence begins to manifest itself in a handful of children, who proceed to make astonishing scientific breakthroughs in the field of energy production. The two apparently unrelated stories close in on each other at the climax (far too mild a word for it).

It does take a while to get going, with a lot of the first half being something of a cookie-cutter will they/won't they space launch saga, but there are sprinklings of some truly visionary science (particularly the breathtaking sequence where the probe is repeatedly pushed into the distant future - worth getting from the library on its own). The rapidly switching point of view character took me some getting used to, but it does offer a more rounded insight into the goings on. And the ENDING... ye gods, Baxter went all-out!

So good was this book that it induced me to read Flood; if I'd read Flood first, though...
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars superb epic - educational too 28 Oct 2001
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Format:Paperback
I have read most of Stephen Baxter's books and have been constantly amazed how he can write with such originality and at such a prolific rate (see the Xeelee sequence and Manifold novels).
The science is stunning, entertainingly educational (true), yet absolutely compelling.

So many areas of thought are covered in this novel (statistics,social collapse, arrows of time, sequential big bang theory, etc.) woven in with his trademark character interactions. Baxter's novels leave you out of breath (and your mind sometimes struggling), yet enlightened.

I'd be the first to say that I'm not a genius by any stretch of the imagination, however, persevere with it (as it's one of his most technical novels) and you will be rewarded with a great read and knowledge to boot.

If you want to try something that's easier to get into, read Ring or Vacuum Diagrams from the Xeelee sequence of epics.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Clever and interesting but didn't engage me
This is the first Stephen Baxter book I've read (apart from a collaboration with Terry Pratchett). I found the book well written, very clever, but for me anyway, not totally... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Simon Law
1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story ... But
I'd give this 5 stars for the story and 0 for the (now sadly common) e-book publishing fiasco. If you're in Britain you're not going to be able to get part 2 of the trilogy. Read more
Published 9 months ago by simon@cliffy.globalnet.co.uk
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Mindblowing ideas.
Baxter really is one of the preeminent authors of this genre and at this time.
Highly reccomended - as are all the Manifold series.
Published 22 months ago by Mr. M. D. Higginbotham
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Wasn't very keen on this one. The initial premise, of future human beings sending a message back to the present day to warn them of catastrophe, is interesting, if hardly original. Read more
Published on 16 May 2011 by John Hopper
5.0 out of 5 stars Beano or New scientist
fed up of reviews written by people who clearly do not understand the science and would find any well written novel of any genre difficult to read.. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2010 by Kalidas
2.0 out of 5 stars Buy something else, Very frustrating..
I've been appreciating sci fi books since the early offerings of Asimov and Clark to the excellent works of Hamilton but this rubbish from Baxter is truly awful. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2010 by Geek
3.0 out of 5 stars A potentially good story but too much space/time theoretical...
As an ardent sci-fi fan since my early reading days, I have a collection dating back from the birth of the genre in the 30's up to it's heyday in the 70's and early 80's. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2010 by Willy Eckerslike
2.0 out of 5 stars A waste of...?
I discovered Baxter via the Gollancz 'Future Classics' series which included his uber-epic, 'Evolution'. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2008 by BloodyOllie
5.0 out of 5 stars Visionary and compelling - a novel of tremendous scope
"Time", the first book in Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy, follows the story of Reid Malenfant, washout NASA astronaut and entrepreneur with ambitions of propelling humanity... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2007 by The Wanderer
4.0 out of 5 stars Good story
A good story and enjoyable read but I felt it fell foul of a few issues.

I too noticed the problem with them witnessing the event at the end of the book - to witness it... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2007 by Andrew
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