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Paperback - Gollancz (2006)

Sunstorm
Book II
2037
The sun flares. Thousands die. Suddenly our high-technology civilisation seems terribly vulnerable. We recover. We rebuild. But this is just the precursor.
In April 2042, in just five years, the sun will flare once more.
But this time the sun will hurl out in one day the energy it would normally spend in a year. This time nothing on Earth will survive. As plans are drawn up to save mankind, as all Earth’s resources are mobilised for one unimaginable engineering effort, one question nags: Why now?
An epic account of our epochal struggle to survive - and a revelation of our place in a dangerous universe.
Sunstorm is the sequel to the acclaimed Time’s Eye. These two books have brought together two of the greatest talents of world SF.

First British Edition Gollancz (2004)

Exultant
Destiny's Children Book Two

Twenty-five thousand years have worn away. Mankind has become a mighty star-spanning host, and is locked in a millennial war for the Galaxy itself. A war against the utterly unknowable Xeelee.

We have survived the shock of alien occupation and for twenty millennia now humanity’s fight for survival has been led by the ‘Coalition’. You are expected to live bravely and die young - and only successful soldiers pass on their genes. It has been an immense selective-breeding programme; in this age, the superior form of human is a child soldier.
And it has been successful; the ‘Third Expansion’ of mankind has swept us across the Galaxy - but it has stalled at the Galaxy centre, where the Xeelee have their fortress.
And the Xeelee have survived many cosmic transitions; they aren’t going away . . .
Reviews for Coalescent (Destiny’s Children Book One)
‘Breakneck stuff. Impeccably constructed set pieces, staccato bursts of violence and mysteries revealed that lead to yet more mysteries. Baxter resplendent’ SFX
‘The word epic simply doesn’t do justice to the vision of this extremely powerful novel’ Dream watch
‘An accomplished, assured and mature SF writer very much at the top of his game’ The List

Paperback - Gollancz (2005)

First British Edition Gollancz (2004)

Time's Eye
A Time Odyssey: Book One
With Arthur C. Clarke
1885, the NW frontier. Young journalist Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and a piece of impossibly advanced technology: a hovering sphere, mysteriously watchful. And then, shockingly, a helicopter from the year 2037 comes clattering over the hill.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan are puzzled to find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have disappeared - as if they had never been.
And elsewhere again, the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the great King, who seems to have vanished.
Across human history, nothing is as it was. Kipling, the helicopter crew and other castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world. It is a journey that will lead them to mystery, wonder and danger - and to a devastating truth. For if human history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us have dreamed.
Mankind’s odyssey in time has begun.

Time’s Eye brings together two of the greatest talents of world SF.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, is the world’s foremost science fiction writer and one of the great popularisers of science.
Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most significant SF writer of his generation.
They have collaborated once before on the epic novel The Light Of Other Days.
Time’s Eye spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on physics and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre’s masters at their groundbreaking best and is the first novel of A Time Odyssey.
'The adventure is rousing and I can't imagine anyone finishing this book and not wondering what comes next' New York Times
'You won't set the book down to eat or sleep or work if you can help it' Chicago Tribune
`Arthur C. Clarke is one of the few geniuses of our time’ Ray Bradbury
`Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement

First British Edition Gollancz (2003)

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2004)

Coalescent
Destiny's Children Book One
Things are going to be very different now . .
Sisters matter more than daughters.
Ignorance is strength.
Listen to your sisters.
As the light of the Roman Empire gutters and fails, one woman begins a remarkable quest to protect her family. It is a quest that will last 2000 years and threaten everything we know.
In present-day England, George Poole is looking for his long lost sister. It is a search that will take him to Rome and into the heart of an ancient secret. A secret that holds a terrifying truth for all our futures.
Whether telling the vivid story of a dying Empire, charting the compelling history of a city, or detailing chilling evolutionary possibilities for mankind, Coalescent is never less than an enthralling piece of storytelling. Following his landmark work Evolution, Coalescent is proof positive that Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most important SF writer of his generation.
'Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision' The Times Literary Supplement

Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

First British Edition Gollancz (2002)

Paperback
Gollancz (2002)

Evolution
Their story began when dinosaurs dominated the Earth. And, down through countless millennia of the day-to-day dramas of survival of the fittest, they have survived.
The primates.
They dodged the thunderous feet and scything teeth of the dinosaurs.
65 million years ago they survived the apocalyptic asteroid strike and inherited an empty world. They have been carried by the infinitely slow, stately dance of the continents, lived through the swift advance and retreat of the great ice packs.
They fumbled their way out of the forests, they became human, they covered the Earth, they fell but they have survived. And they have evolved. Adapted to life on a changing, dying world.
This is their story.
Evolution follows the ebb and flow of one stream in the great river of DNA. It turns the story of Darwinian evolution into a constant drama, a daily life and death struggle, a heroic story of life’s endurance. It is a story that transcends generations, species, mankind and, in the end, the Earth itself.
‘Speaking as an evolutionary biologist, Stephen Baxter has persuaded me that we really could have evolved as he describes in the stories he tells.’ Jack Cohen DSc, PhD, Co-author of The Science of Discworld
‘A powerful fusion of science and imagination. In its imaginative vision Evolution deserves comparison with Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men. Memorable’ The Guardian
‘I felt I was watching Walking with Beasts rolled into The Human Journey. The sheer timescale makes a great story that is panoramic in extent. Baxter’s ability to turn science into exciting and readable fiction makes him one of the most accessible SF writers around’ The Times
‘Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. His new novel is about time, but its vision of our future is shockingly different and very convincing. Evolution mixes inventiveness with a truly Wellsian (and Stapledonian) vision’ The Times Literary Supplement‘
‘The perfect Scientific Romance for our time. The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story’ John Clute, The Washington Post
‘A work of outrageous ambition’ New York Sunday Times