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Stephen Baxter

Time Paperback – 4 Oct. 2010

by Stephen Baxter (Author)

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Book 1 of 4 in the Manifold Series

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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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464 pages
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English
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HarperVoyager
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4 Oct. 2010
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11.1 x 2.8 x 17.8 cm
ISBN-10

0006511821
ISBN-13

978-0006511823
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‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’
THE TIMES

‘The best SF writer in Britain’
SFX

Praise for The Manifold Trilogy:

‘Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined, TIME places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov’
THE TIMES

‘Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence’
THE GUARDIAN

‘Baxter is taking basic SF ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics … [He] apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard SF all by himself’
LOCUS

‘It’s time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein’
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About the Author

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn’t make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperVoyager; First Issue Paperback edition (4 Oct. 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0006511821
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0006511823
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.1 x 2.8 x 17.8 cm

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B. Bakla

gotta believe in time travel to like it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2014

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Unless you are really interested in physics and philosophy it's unlikely you'll be able to finish this book. At least that's been my experience. To be honest I had to try very hard not to dismiss some of the arguments in the final third of the book as too much bs. There are attemps at twisting the plot after the first half but these fail spectacularly. If the story had ended tens of chapters ago, this could have left a pleasant taste, but no.

Strangely I still think I ought to give it 3 stars because the writer obviously has depth in the topics he's writing. His vision of expansion into the Solar System for resources is inescapable for future Sci-fi wirters. I like that.

Finally, having read some of his other works like the Time Odyssey a few years ago and having given it another go now I am decided. I don't see myself returning to read more. Unfortunately my memory of Baxter's work will be little more than "time travel stuff".

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Jan Rejthar

Super hard and so strange that it’s actually good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2021

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I have no idea how I have always known about Baxter’s existence in the literary sci-fi world, yet never read his books. So it happened and I was surprised. Without further research on the author I was giving a well crafted world with hard sci-fi avalanche situated in current times, which made it that bit more believable. And it was written 22 years ago. Well, surprised.

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Suetpud

Mind expanding concepts - Baxter doesn't disappoint!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2014

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In a more technologically advanced present a (pregnant) genetically enhanced cephalopod Sheena- 5 is sent on a one way space mission to an asteroid by a renegade entrepreneur. Sheena survives and her intelligent progeny escape to colonise space. Among political intrigue and a growing awareness of earth's impending doom the moon is at first colonised by a small band of evolved and highly advanced children and then detonated in a super explosion which ends everything as we know it. Downstream, humankind has at least one reprentative in the form of Malenfant, the enterpreneur who along with Michael, one of the "blue" children, choses to sidestep universes in order to prolong the life of the woman he loves. Time folds and permutations are endless as one human moves into the future. But the concept of future is irrelevant and the capacity of the blues to inhabit it is without limits as we understand them. A stunning read. Towards the end hang on tight
as your grip on infinity might loosen a bit before Baxter reigns in your horizons for a next, doubtless amazing, instalment.

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D. Trail

Not what you were expecting, brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2017

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Absolutely brilliant! A mind opener for sure, another hidden Sci-Fi gem and I'm going to be sure to make my way through the rest of the series.

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FigBugDad

what a gripping read!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2014

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This book reads like a thriller. Complex, interesting and yet sympathetic characters, a crackling pace, it draws you onwards turning pages (or the e-quivalent) to find out what happens next.
A bit depressing at times, expressing his antipathy towards ignorance and dogma, but makes it all good in the end, wrapped into a grand climax.

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A book I hurried to get finished

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2016

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Another typical Stephen Baxter book - full of brilliant science-based ideas all thrown away with some of the blandest characters, dopiest dialogue and unlikeliest plot twists you could scrape up from a soap opera. Iain M. Banks he isn't!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 December 2016

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I love this book. As always, Stephen Baxter handles and explains the science really very well. The themes just keep expanding and expanding to a fantastically huge new scale throughout the story. Simply brilliant stuff.

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Simon Law

Clever and interesting but didn't engage me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2012

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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 engaging. I don't have a science background and struggled to get my head round some of the concepts.

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