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The Time Ships
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Manifold: Origin
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Stone Spring: The Northland Trilogy
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The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket, and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall. There is: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks a career and love for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.
Kennedy survived. Like many alternate history stories, that's the premise of Stephen Baxter's Voyage. But in Baxter's version of the past, that one altered fact is the propellant that drives humanity into space, beyond the primitive lunar landings of the 1960s. Spurred by a JFK who champions space flight and a Nixon administration that backs NASA, humans reach Mars in 1986. But this is a tragic tale as well as a triumphant one, for Baxter's relentless realism chronicles the perils of extended space flight as well as its glamorous achievements, making for a gritty, true-to-life story.
Stone Spring: The Northland Trilogy
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Alternate history at its most mindblowing-from the national bestselling author of Flood and Ark. Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain exists linking the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. Then Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho-a city that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible...
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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 together, they make a vow to always watch out for one another. But they never expected this... The world they have returned to has been transformed by water-and the water is rising. As it continues to flow from the earth's mantle, entire countries disappear. High ground becomes a precious commodity. And finally, the dreadful truth is revealed: before fifty years have passed, there will be nowhere left to run...
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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 childhood, when the ships Ark One and Ark Three were being built. But as Holle prepares to endure life aboard the Ark, she comes to realize that her attempt at escape may be more dangerous than trying to stay afloat on a drowning planet...
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“ONE OF THE BEST SF WRITERS IN THE BUSINESS . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe.”
–Science Fiction Chronicle
In the year 2015, astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth’s orbit. But when the very fabric of the sky tears open, spilling living creatures to the ground and pulling others inside (including his wife, Emma), Malenfant’s quest to uncover the unknown becomes personal. While desperately searching to discover what happened to the woman he loves, Malenfant embarks upon an adventure to the very fount of human development . . . on earth and beyond.
Award-winning author Stephen Baxter turns to the origin of species in this final novel of the Manifold trilogy. Reid Malenfant and Emma Stoney are flying over Africa when a new moon appears in the sky--and Emma disappears. She finds herself on the Red Moon with people resembling human evolutionary ancestors, with whom she must learn to live in order to survive. On Earth, Malenfant teams with Japanese scientist Nemoto on a desperate rescue mission that leads to greater questions about the origin of the alien moon, and ultimately of humankind. Because the Manifold novels take place in alternate universes, Origin works well as a stand-alone read. Baxter effectively explores how modern humans and their ancestors might be thoroughly alien to one another, but the book is more focused on thoughtful scientific speculation than in-depth characterization. However, readers who are swept away by novels of cosmic scope and compelling imagination will find Big Idea science fiction at its best. --Roz Genessee
The Time Ships
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There is a secret passage through time ...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. A century after the publication of H. G. Wells' immortal The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter, today's most acclaimed new "hard SF" author, and the acknowledged Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics.
What if the time machine from H.G. Wells' classic novel of the same name had fallen into government hands? That's the question that led Stephen Baxter to create this modern-day sequel, which combines a basic Wellsian premise with a Baxteresque universe-spanning epic. The Time Traveller, driven by his failure to save Weena from the Morlocks, sets off again for the future. But this time the future has changed, altered by the very tale of the Traveller's previous journey.
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Scores finish level in dramatic finish - Pontefract and Castleford Express
Pontefract and Castleford Express, UK - Feb 04, 6485
Scores finish level in dramatic finishBaxter finished not out on 59 with Hussain taking 4-31. Townville A were well beaten in their Division Two match against Wakefield Thornes. Batting first, their young side were dismissed for 108 with 22 from Steve Walton, 21 by James Glynn and 20 for
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Bookends Discoveries: 'Curiosities of Literature' - Newsday
Newsday, NY - Feb 04, 3217
Bookends Discoveries: 'Curiosities of Literature'Burt introduces many poets, like James K. Baxter and John Tranter (founding editor of the online poetry journal Jacket) and gives a bit of insight into more playful poets like Les Murray. The last essays are helpful in reading the work of better knowns
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The St. Stephen View 05/27 - Berkeley Independent
Berkeley Independent, SC - May 26, 2009
The St. Stephen View 05/27Happy Birthday to Dixon Ballentine, Savanna Baxter, Gail Humbert, Justin Mahon, Jimmy Moody, Calvin Owens, Teresa Rentzel, Dwayne Shuler, Milton Thames and Keller Wofford. Congratulations to newlyweds Morgan Gwen Bradham and Tony Curtis Howard II who
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City is adding acres - StandardNet
StandardNet, Utah - May 26, 2009
City is adding acresBrandon Baxter, attorney for the neighbors, said they were not opposed to annexation if the process was done right. "This annexation we believe is flawed. It does not have a clean boundary. If we moved it to 1200 North it wouldn't have enough land,
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BRIDGET GALWAY: From the Bohemian digs of Provincetown: To The ... - Somerville News
Somerville News, MA - Feb 04, 8674
BRIDGET GALWAY: From the Bohemian digs of Provincetown: To The My father was the writer Stephen Seley; mainly published in the 40's and 50's, at that time he was written up in the New York Times for two books "Baxter Bernstein ", published by Scribner's, and "The Cradle Will Fall", published by Harcourt,
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