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About the Author

Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

Conqueror
Time’s Tapestry book Two

‘These the Great Years, of the Comet of God Whose awe and beauty, in the roof of the world Lights step by step, the road to empire All Aryan realm, The Glory of Christ.’

It begins with the death of the last Roman and ends, in 1066, with the crowning of a king, the birth of a new order.
As the centuries between these two events pass, as Britain emerges from the ruins of Roman rule to become a vibrant, rich power in its own right, as invasions ebb and flow and Kings rule and die a single thread is spun and stretched.
A prophecy preserved by the monks at Lindisfarne. A prophecy remembered, a prophecy handed down. A prophecy that speaks of the cross, of dragons from the north. Of a new world and of a new empire.
A prophecy fulfilled in one remarkable year: 1066. Conqueror is a fast moving historical thriller that casts a bright light onto a shadowy period of British history and brings it to vibrant life. Steeped in blood and violence this was also a time of artistic endeavour, a time of nation-building and law-giving.
And it is a time of chance, where history can be shaped by the Weaver.
‘Masterful. A mix of widescreen spectacle and telling details. Mighty impressive’ SFX

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)

Navigator
Time’s Tapestry book Three

‘God’s Engines Will Burn Our Ocean
And Flame Across The Lands Of Spices.
All This I Have Witnessed.
I And My Mothers.
Send The Dove West ! Send Him West!’

As William the Conqueror’s men attempt to bring an end to the Murdrum, the furtive slaughter, of the English guerilla campaign against the occupying forces, a prophecy is spoken by a bedraggled woman in a shattered village. A prophecy that speaks of terrifying engines of war, engines of God’s vengeance that will be unleashed in a war between civilizations.
As the flame of the crusades burns back and forth across Outremer, as the Mediterranean becomes a crucible for a seemingly endless war between Islam and Christianity, as even in Spain where Moor and Christian had lived side by side the years bring savage sieges, people die and families are torn apart to keep the prophecy alive. Will the engines finally win the war for Christianity or Islam? Or will all be swept away by the rumoured might of the Mongols that have already swept through Asia? Or does the future lie not to the East, but to the West, across the great sea?
And while the scholars debate the true nature of the prophecy, and Kings and Emirs plot and conspire, all the time the engineers are working to build the engines of God.
Where have the plans for these terrifying weapons of war come from? What does the Weaver of Time’s Tapestry intend?
Praise For The Time’s Tapestry Series:
‘Epic historical fiction laced with a science fiction premise’ SFX
‘Baxter at his best’ Guardian

First British Edition Gollancz (2006)

Resplendent
Destiny’s Children Book Four

‘I was born in AD5279, as humans once counted Time. Now I have lived so long that such dates have no meaning. We have lost the years, lost them in orders of magnitude’

‘ From the last days of the Roman Empire in the first century AD to the first days of the Transcendence half a million years later, Destiny’s Children has told the epic, terrifying story of how mankind has grown, how it has evolved, how it has forgotten its origins, reached its peak as a galaxy spanning culture and, finally, hit the tipping point before its last fall …
Part of Stephen Baxter’s supremely ambitious Xeelee Sequence, Destiny’s Children is, itself, a landmark work of modern SF.
Resplendent is a collection of connected stories that inform and expand on the three novels of Destiny’s Children. Vast in scope and ambition, full of wonder, this is classic Baxter, classic SF.
Here is mankind, evolved to meet new challenges and environments but still prey to humanity’s old weaknesses. Here are stories of epic conflict and intimate pain. Futures that we will shape, futures that will not remember us.
‘Absurdly ambitious, technically brilliant and downright exciting’ SFX

First British Edition Gollancz (2006)

Paperback - Gollancz (2006)

Emperor
Time's Tapestry Book One

‘Ah Child! Bound in time’s tapestry, and yet you were born free Come let me sing to you of what there is and what will be’

Brica lives on the cold northern edge of the Roman Empire. As she struggles through a painful labour she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin. A language she has never heard before, much less spoken.
Only later does it become clear that the women has spoken a prophecy. A prophecy that relates to the death of an Emperor. A prophecy that if enacted will change the fate of the Roman Empire. And all of the future beyond it to our present day. Is the weaver of time’s tapestry trying to change the lives of men?
The prophecy is scribbled down and handed down through the generations as the family is pulled apart and the Rome’s fortune waxes and wanes.
From a terrifying clash between the tribes and the legions to the teeming streets of Rome itself this is an extraordinary tale of our past when it was still a future that could be changed.
'Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the works of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision' The Times Literary Supplement
'Epic… vividly convincing' SFX

Paperback - Gollancz (2006)

First British Edition Gollancz (2005)

Transcendent
Destiny’s Children Book Three

‘The girl from the future told me the sky is full of dying worlds’.

‘ As the world struggles through the middle years of the 21st century; global warming, the end of oil, Michael Poole is being haunted. By the far future. Or a far future at least.
A future where the Transcendents have made themselves into something unimaginably powerful, unimaginably different. A future where they would be on the cusp of godhood and would finally leave being human behind.
But a future tortured by regret. A very human regret. A regret that has to be resolved before they can achieve godhood.
A future that must fold down into the present.
And in that far future a young woman begins an epic journey, across the countless human worlds where mankind has evolved into countless different forms, towards the Transcendence and a different way of being.
Praise for the Destiny’s Children series:
‘Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement
‘Absurdly ambitious, technically brilliant and downright exciting’ SFX

About The Author
Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton
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.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age.
Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Conqueror (Gollancz, 2007) Gollancz Pbk Jul 07

Navigator (Gollancz Pbk, 2007)

Resplendent (Gollancz, 2006)

Emperor (Gollancz, 2006) Gollancz Pbk Feb 06

Transcendent (Gollancz, 2005) Gollancz Pbk Sep 06

Sunstorm (Gollancz, 2005) Gollancz Pbk Apr 06

Exultant (Gollancz, 2004)

Time's Eye (Gollancz, 2004) Gollancz Pbk May 05

Coalescent (Gollancz, 2003) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jun 04

Evolution (Gollancz, 2002) Gollancz Pbk Aug 07

Futures (Gollancz, 2001)

Mammoth: Icebones (Gollancz, 2001) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Feb 02

Deep Future (Gollancz, 2001) Gollancz Pbk Jan 02

The Light of Other Days (Voyager, 2000) Voyager Pbk May 01

Space (Voyager, 2000)

Mammoth: Longtusk (Gollancz, 2000) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jan 01

Time (Voyager, 1999) Voyager Pbk Aug 00

Mammoth: Silverhair (Gollancz Millenium, 1999) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jan 00

Web 2028 (Gollancz Millenium Pbk, 1999)

The Web 2027 (Gollancz Millenium Pbk, 1999)

Traces (Harpercollins, 1998) Voyager Pbk Jan 99

Moonseed (Voyager, 1998) Voyager Pbk Aug 99

Gulliverzone (Orion, 1997) Orion Pbk 1997

Titan

The Time Ships