Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45248-1
Clarke, with Baxter (Coalescent
), probably the most talented of the former's several collaborators, have cooked up an exciting tale full of high-tech physics, military tactics and larger-than-life characters in the first of two novels related...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-45250-4
Set in the same universe as Clarke's 2001
and its sequels, Clarke and Baxter's second and final Time Odyssey book (after 2004's Time's Eye
) will especially appeal to fans of hard SF who appreciate well-grounded science and humans...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-345-49157-2
Though supposedly the last volume of Clarke and Baxter’s Time Odyssey series (after 2005’s Sunstorm
), this intriguing and frustrating installment of the high-octane space opera ends with an astounding cliffhanger just as humans have...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-43079-3
This third and final book in Baxter's ambitious trilogy, whose vast scale calls to mind Asimov's Foundation series, shares the same strengths and weaknesses as the two previous volumes, Manifold: Space
and Manifold: Time. More anthropology...
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Stephen Baxter. Roc, $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-451-46479-8
Baxter’s underwhelming follow-up to Stone Spring technically succeeds in its overarching goal—showing the effect on the prehistoric world of creating a huge wall to protect the bed of the future North Sea from being flooded—but is hampered by a...
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Stephen Baxter. Roc, $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-451-46418-7
Baxter launches the Northland trilogy with this solid alternate history that stands nicely alone. In Northland, the stretch of land that is now the North Sea, adolescent Ana celebrates her “blood tide” in the matriarchal village of Etxelur while...
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Stephen Baxter, Author Del Rey Books $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-345-45785-1
Known for his hard SF, Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) explores social and historical issues as well as human evolution in the first of his Destiny's Children trilogy, with mixed results. In the present, George Poole discovers that he has a twin...
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Stephen Baxter, Author Del Rey Books $24 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-43077-9
Former NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant returns to lead the vanguard for humanity's future in space in this deeply thought-provoking sequel to Manifold: Time. In the year 2020, America's space program has disintegrated, and the Japanese have colonized...
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Stephen Baxter, Author HarperPrism $23 (511p) ISBN 978-0-06-105258-3
With just a little bit of alternate history, Baxter's excellent what-if novel about a 1986 Mars landing accomplishes its mission. The premise is brilliant: at the time of the Apollo moon landing, President Nixon authorized a Space Task Group to...
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Stephen Baxter, Author Del Rey Books $24 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-43075-5
Baxter is well known for both realistic near-future, alternate-history novels (Voyage) and the wildest sort of hard-science speculation (Flux; Timelike Infinity). In this first volume in his Manifold trilogy, he combines both types of story,...
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Stephen Baxter, Roc, $24.95 (544p) ISBN 9780451463319
Baxter's riveting follow-up to bestseller Flood tempers the hope of humanity coming together in the face of a crisis with an often brutal undercurrent of realism, resulting in a sequel that surpasses the original in almost every way. Set during the...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Roc $24.95 (490p) ISBN 978-0-451-46271-8
In an engrossing, daring and occasionally overambitious novel, Baxter (Weaver
) narrates the final 42 years of dry land on earth. Four political hostages are freed in Barcelona in 2016, and their stories through the years show the attempts to save...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Ace $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-441-01559-7
The engrossing third Time’s Tapestry novel (after Emperor
and Conqueror
) from Philip K. Dick Award–winner Baxter focuses on Christianity’s reconquest of Spain from the Moors between A.D. 1070 and 1492. This conflict is reflected...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Ace $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-441-01466-8
Excellent characterization and deft historical scene-setting lift this first of an ambitious new series from Philip K. Dick Award–winner Baxter (Sunstorm
), which follows the passing of a prophecy across generations of a British and Roman...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Forge $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1238-9
James Hutton (1726–1797) was the father of modern geology, but as Baxter reveals, fellow scientists in Enlightenment Scotland didn't take to his ideas right away. Although more than a century earlier James Ussher had famously propounded...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-45788-2
Military SF fans will relish the second entry in Baxter's Destiny's Children trilogy, set long after the events recounted in 2003's Coalescent
. When navy pilot Pirius and his crew violate protocol during a skirmish with the alien Xeelee
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-345-45786-8
Known for his hard SF, Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) explores social and historical issues as well as human evolution in the first of his Destiny's Children trilogy, with mixed results. In the present, George Poole discovers that he has a twin...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-345-45782-0
Taking a page from SF saga writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Stableford, British author Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) portrays humanity's origins, growth and ultimate disappearance in a loose-knit series of brutal vignettes spanning...
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Stephen Baxter, Author . Eos $14.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-380-81899-0
Transported to the Sky Steppe of Mars in the final, satisfying book in British author Baxter's highly original Mammoth trilogy (Longtusk; Silverhair), his engaging wooly characters face an abandoned and potentially lethal terraforming experiment
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Meticulously researched, simply told and appropriate for readers of all ages, this second volume (after 1999's Silverhair) in Baxter's Mammoth trilogy brings to compelling life the complex culture of these giant creatures. It's sixteen...
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Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds. Saga, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7967-7
Two of the most acclaimed contemporary hard SF writers successfully team up in this ambitious epic space opera, spanning almost 800 years, that expands the themes raised by Arthur C. Clarke’s classic 1971 novella, A Meeting with Medusa. Clarke’s...
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Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Harper Voyager, $24.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-206775-3
In this thought-provoking collaboration, Pratchett (the Discworld series) and Baxter (Stone Spring) create an infinity of worlds to explore. A revolutionary process known as Stepping has allowed humanity access to an unlimited number of parallel...
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Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Harper, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-229729-7
The third Long Earth installment (after The Long War) sees humanity spreading out across infinite parallel worlds, with several key figures trailblazing in different ways. Commander Maggie Kauffman leads an expedition to catalog hundreds of millions
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Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Harper, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-229733-4
The fourth installment of Baxter and the late Pratchett's ambitious Long Earth saga (after The Long Mars) makes it clear that their imagination and world-building know no limits. In the years since the Yellowstone eruption devastated the original...
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Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Harper, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-229737-2
In this conclusion to the Long Earth series (following 2015's The Long Utopia), set in 2070, Baxter (Ultima) and the late Pratchett (The Shepherd's Crown) take their decades-spanning tale of an infinite chain of parallel Earths to the next level as...
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Stephen Baxter. Crown, $27 (496p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6012-0
This estate-authorized sequel to H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is set in the early 1920s, but it has the feel of one of Baxter’s modern SF extravaganzas. It’s been 13 years since marauding Martians were vanquished by Earth bacteria, and the red
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