With the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away, there is hope for a chosen few to leave the soon-to-be submerged Earth. Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates, having been trained for this purpose since chi...
The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is ...
Doctor Who: Wheel of Ice: An Unabridg...
Stephen BaxterThe Wheel of Ice is a ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn; it is home to a colony mining minerals for a resource-hungry future Earth. Aboard the Wheel the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe find a critical situation—and...
In this massive epic (more than 700 pages long), Stephen Baxter traces the entire history of primate evolution from their first appearance in the age of dinosaurs through the explosion of the Sun and the end of life on planet Earth. A...
Following an aborted tenure with NASA, Reid Malenfant, now an extremely wealthy businessman, has developed his own space program. Surrounding himself with the best and brightest scientists that money can hire, he discovers a rift in t...
Conqueror: Time's Tapestry Book Two
Stephen BaxterWhen William of Normandy, whom history will call the Conqueror, rises to power, the fate of the land rests on actions inspired by the words found in an ancient scroll. It is known as The Prophecy, and it reveals secrets about the futu...
Following an aborted tenure with NASA, Reid Malenfant, now an extremely wealthy businessman, has developed his own space program. Surrounding himself with the best and brightest scientists that money can hire, he discovers a rift in t...
What would happen to the world if the sun went out? New epic sci-fi from Stephen Baxter, the award-winning author whose credits include co-authorship of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett. By the middle of the 21st centu...
The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is ...
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock...
Stephen Baxter“Once you elminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”Twenty-eight tales of mystery and imagination detailing the further exploits of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes...
A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Nebula Award–winning novella "A Meeting with Medusa," this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity's first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science...
Welcome to the infinite worlds of The WebFebruary 7, 2027 is World Peace Day. All over the world, celebrations are in full swing. There's even free access to the Web today-a chance to sample the infinite worlds and endless possibiliti...
On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences. As humanity discove...
On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences. As humanity discove...
Bronze Summer: The Northland Trilogy ...
Stephen BaxterStephen Baxter's "imaginative [and] bold" (Daily Mail, UK)Stone Spring drew readers into an alternate prehistoric scenario. Now, thousands of years have passed, and a wall that was built to hold back the sea must now hold ba...
Iron Winter: The Northland Trilogy (N...
Stephen BaxterPraised as "not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction" (Library Journal), bestselling author Stephen Baxter brings his epic Northland trilogy to a close as a once-thriving civilization faces wi...
The concluding volume of the acclaimed Time's Tapestry series. In the early days of WWII, the Nazis have a secret plan, far grander than simply subjugating an enemy. And three people are caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the f...
CENTERBThere is a secret passage through time/B/CENTERP ...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but he "present" in which we live. P A century af...
The mind-bending study of human evolution that began with Coalescent continues with a journey to the far future, a world in which a far-flung human race has perfected war as a way of life as they confront the deadly threat of an impla...
This hard SF collaboration between Sir Arthur Clarke and Stephen Baxter, set in Clarke's 2001 series universe, is the second and final volume in the Time Odyssey duology. Bisesa Dutt has spent five years on an alternate version of Ear...
The "deeply scary"(BBC Focus) new novel from a national bestselling and critically acclaimed author. Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive togethe...
While struggling to unravel the truth about rumors of unauthorized cosmic experiments, an Earth diplomat receives a ghostly visitation that resembles his dead wife, who reveals to him a new vision of humankind's future. Winner of the ...
Stone Spring: The Northland Trilogy
Stephen BaxterPraised as "one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced" (SF Site), national bestselling author Stephen Baxter presents a new saga of a world that could have become our own.... Ten thousand years...
Hailed as "one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced" (SF Site), Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas....On the planet of Per Ardua,...
England's Rise to Greatness, 1660-176...
Stephen BaxterIn 1660 England was already prosperous, free, civilized, and the possessor of the makings of an empire. In the century to follow, the island nation became the world's greatest power. This cohesive collection of essays on a wide r...
Moonseed (The NASA Trilogy) (Nasa, 3)...
Stephen BaxterIt started the night Geena and Henry broke up. What was that strange light in the sky? A new star? A comet? Neither. It was the death of Venus. As if to commemorate the end of NASA’s golden couple, our neighbor planet exploded ...
Moonseed (The NASA Trilogy) (Nasa, 3)...
Stephen BaxterIt started the night Geena and Henry broke up. What was that strange light in the sky? A new star? A comet? Neither. It was the death of Venus. As if to commemorate the end of NASA’s golden couple, our neighbor planet exploded ...
"Stephen Baxter has been heralded, with some merit, as Arthur C. Clarke's literary heir, and Proxima certainly reinforces this accolade in spades."—ConcatenationMankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite.The...
The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to Th...
Stephen BaxterA sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has moved on, always watching the...
Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron's visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na'vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a scientific rationale for much of ...