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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)

First British Edition Gollancz (2000)

Mammoth: Longtusk
Mammoth Book Two
It is sixteen thousand years before the birth of Christ. And every human alive wakes to the calls of mammoths.
A vast sheet of ice sits on the North Pole, immense, brooding. Glaciers jut from the ice cap like claws, pulverising rock layers and carving out fjords and lakes. South of the ice, immense plains sweep around the planet, darkened by herds of mighty herbivores. And chief amongst them are countless mammoths. Secure in their ancient history, fearing no other animal, the mammoths little suspect that their time is nearly over.
Separated from his family, the young bull Longtusk begins a lonely odyssey that will take him into the heart of a new, alien culture. Captured and trained by The Lost - pale predators sweeping up from the South Longtusk faces a bleak future. But it is a future that will take him to the ends of his ice-bound world, a destiny that will see him immortalised in mammoth legend. And all the generations to come will owe everything to Longtusk - the only bull to be mentioned in the great story cycle of the mammoths.
'A stunning talent' Locus

First British Edition Voyager (1999)

Paperback - Voyager (2000)

Time
In the millennium's last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a short step beyond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived... so far.
DEAD RECKONING
Cornelius Taine of Eschatology, Inc., mathematical genius, pursues the logic of our very existence to its inescapable end. In just 200 years our species will be wiped out. Taine's prediction is expressed in the universal language of numbers. It is elegant, sublime, irrefutable. Even evacuation from Earth will not save us from extinction.
BOOTSTRAP
Reid Malenfant, entrepreneur, is single-handedly reinventing the US space program as private enterprise. His company, Bootstrap, has Big Dumb Boosters ready to launch from the California desert to mine a near-Earth asteroid for its mineral wealth piloted by an enhanced squid named Sheena 5. Malenfant's vision of mankind's future in space is brutally cut short, but then Taine offers him the ultimate dream of saving the species.
THE FEYNMAN RADIO
Emma Stoney, Bootstrap's financial controller and Malenfant's ex-wife, is dismayed. Emma knows to what extremes Malenfant will go in pursuit of a dream. Taine is certain people of the future will try to communicate with us if there is any way to avoid the catastrophe. So, using a particle accelerator, Malenfant tunes in to Feynman Radio signals interference in the background radiation of the Big Bang. He does indeed discover a message from the future! Soon, in response, Sheena the squid is flying to a different asteroid - Cruithne, Earth's remote second moon - for very different reasons.
TIME
What Sheena 5 discovers on Cruithne is nothing less than a revelation: the secret reason for our existence visible at last beneath the rippled surface of time's river. Malenfant and Emma find their own lives, and their love, irrevocably bound up with the wider destiny of humanity as the continuing Feynman Radio signals, washing down over us from the future,
'Science fiction at its best' FHM
'His best book, Time spans trillions of years… a big, ambitious book, in which the weirdest of weird science is coupled with a rather touching love story… a compendium of the wild and the possible, Baxter makes of them a human story’ Dreamwatch
‘Vaulting perspectives give Time an extraordinary punch… but Baxter sees a darker truth of human nature… and keeps those huge perspectives in perspective’ Locus
‘Esoteric cosmological ideas are meshed into a fast-paced novel… it’s time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein’ Edge
‘Time has one of the best time-jump sequences ever attempted, during which the protagonists witness the entire future of the universe... Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence' Guardian
'Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined... Time places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. How reassuring to know that someone at least is still looking at the stars' The Times
'The Xeelee Sequence is cosmic-perspective science fiction of originality, high quality and great interest Baxter will be one of the major science-fiction writers of the turn of the century.' New York Review of Science Fiction
'Baxter handles a complex and gripping plot with his customary aplomb ... The ending will blow your mind ... go out and buy everything that Baxter has ever written' New Scientist

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

First British Edition Gollancz Millenium (1999)

Mammoth: Silverhair
Mammoth Book One
A new epic of the imagination from 'the best SF writer in Britain' (SFX)
'A vicious wind is rising, and the ice fields to the north are shrouded in grey haze. And out of that haze something looms: a mountainous shape, seemingly too massive to move, and yet move it does. As it approaches through the obscuring mist, more of its form becomes visible: a body, covered in thick red-brown hair, rounded as an eroded rock. The head rears up. A trunk comes questing, and immense tusks sweep. Eyes open, warm brown, intense, startlingly human.
A mammoth. They have survived.'
Siberia. The present day.
The mammoths have measured the slow pulse of the seasons as the Earth spins in its stately annual dance their memories stretch back across the million year cycles of the ice sheets.
Their stories tell of the making of the world, of the great heroes and heroines of mammoth legend. They even tell of the coming of man. And, as the millennia have passed. their stories have served them well.
Until now. Until the moment when mankind discovers the last few mammoths in their remote Siberian island refuge. And seeks to finish the slaughter begun so long ago.
For the young female mammoth Silverhair it is her greatest challenge.
The species is spectacularly realised, complete with a religion and culture tackled with impressive creativity. Mammoth will be followed by a sequel; look out for it - if it's anything like the original, you'll be in for a treat' SFX
'Convincing... vivid.., a rich and very rewarding read' Infinity Plus
'A compelling narrative' Time Out
'Engagingly told ... the sufferings and losses of loved ones are harrowing but the surprise finale offers an exhilarating perspective shift with implications that thrill' David Langford

British Pbk Original - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

Web 2028
It is 2028 and the Internet is about to become a lot more than an information superhighway…
Six novellas from six of the biggest names in the genre, charting a world that is about to change forever. A world where our children will make our first contact. A contact that will take place in the Web; the vast network of virtual reality sites that has become a playground for the world's children and a stage for the most dramatic event in mankind's history.
Featuring complete novellas from Stephen Baxter, Ken Macleod, James Lovegrove, Maggie Furey, Pat Cadigan and Eric Blown, The Web 2028 presents six unique, linked views of the future.
Praise for The Web 2027
‘Worth the attention of anyone with an interest in the state of British SF. Anyone looking for diverting and enjoyable entertainment from our top authors need look no further' Infinity Plus
‘Well conceived, well visualised. believable' Daily Telegraph
'Intelligent and thoughtful, as well as entertaining' Science Fiction chronicle
'Quality SF’ SFX

British Pbk Original - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

The Web 2027
For the first time in one volume, a critically acclaimed vision of the future from some of the biggest names in the genre. With six complete novellas from Stephen Baxter, Stephen Bowkett, Eric Brown, Graham Joyce, Peter F Hamilton and Maggie Furey. THE WEB 2027 brings together some of the prime talent of the UK genre scene to chart an extraordinarily vivid future for the world.
It is a world where the internet has become a vast global network of virtual reality sites; a massive playground where children are in the front line of a terrifying battle against a villain who sees immortality in cyberspace and will do anything to get there. 'Worth the attention of anyone with an interest in the state of British SF. Anyone looking for diverting and enjoyable entertainment from our top authors need look no further' Infinity Plus
'Well conceived, well visualised, believable' Daily Telegraph
'Intelligent and thoughtful, as well as entertaining' Science Fiction Chronicle
'Quality SF' SFX