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Publication Order of A Time Odyssey Books

with Arthur C. Clarke
Time's Eye (By: Arthur C. Clarke) (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sunstorm (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Firstborn (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Adventures of the Second Doctor Books

with Justin Richards, Paul Simpson, Victor Pemberton
The Wheel of Ice (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Doctor WhoThe Morton Legacy (By: Justin Richards) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anti-Ice Books

Anti-Ice (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Newton's Aliens (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Destiny's Children Books

Coalescent (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Exultant (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Transcendent (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Resplendent (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Évolution Books

Evolution (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Flood Books

Flood (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ark (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Landfall (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Imaginings Books

Colder Greyer Stones (By: Tanith Lee) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Last and First Contacts (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stories from the Northern Road (By: Tony Ballantyne) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Microcosmos (By: Nina Allan) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Feast and Famine (By: Adrian Tchaikovsky) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Twember (By: Steve Tem) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Strange Visitors (By: Eric Brown) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Saint Rebor (By: Adam Roberts) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sleeps With Angels (By: Dave Hutchinson) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Light Warden (By: Liz Williams) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mementoes (By: Keith Brooke) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Jones & Bennet Books

The Paradox Conspiracy (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Long Earth Books

with Terry Pratchett
The Long Earth (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long War (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Mars (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Utopia (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Cosmos (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Mammoth Books

Silverhair / Mammoth (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Long Tusk (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Icebones (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Manifold Books

Time (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Space (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Origin (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Phase Space (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of NASA Trilogy Books

Voyage (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Titan (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Moonseed (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Northland Books

Stone Spring (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bronze Summer (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Iron Winter (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Proxima Books

Proxima (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ultima (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Obelisk (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Medusa Chronicles Books

with Alastair Reynolds
The Medusa Chronicles (With: Alastair Reynolds) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Web - 2027 Books

Gulliverzone (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dreamcastle (By: Stephen Bowkett) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Untouchable (By: Eric Brown) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Spiderbite (By: Graham Joyce) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lightstorm (By: Peter F. Hamilton) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sorceress (By: Maggie Furey) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Time's Tapestry Books

Emperor (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Conqueror (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Navigator (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Weaver (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of World Engines Books

Destroyer (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Creator (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Xeelee Sequence Books

Raft (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Timelike Infinity (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Flux (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ring (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Vacuum Diagrams (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Riding the Rock (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mayflower II (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Xeelee Endurance (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Starfall (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gravity Dreams (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Vengeance (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Redemption (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Time Ships (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Reality Dust (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Light of Other Days (With: Arthur C. Clarke) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Omegatropic (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The H-Bomb Girl (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cilia-of-Gold (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Massacre of Mankind (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Galaxias (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Thousand Earths (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Collections

with Eric Brown
Traces (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hunters of Pangaea (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Universes (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Project Clio (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Spacetime Pit Plus Two (With: Eric Brown) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Moon Six (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gravity Mine (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
On the Orion Line (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ghost Pit (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Last Contact (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Vacuum Lad (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Deep Future (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy (With: Chris Morgan,David A. Hardy) (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Revolutions In The Earth (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ages in Chaos (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Science of Avatar (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Web - 2028 Books

Webcrash (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cydonia (By: Ken MacLeod) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Spindrift (By: Maggie Furey) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Computopia (By: James Lovegrove) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Avatar (By: Pat Cadigan) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Walkabout (By: Eric Brown) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Web: 2028 (With: Pat Cadigan,Ken MacLeod,James Lovegrove,Eric Brown,Maggie Furey,Simon Spanton) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction Books

with Lisa Tuttle, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Michael Moorcock, Storm Constantine, Brian M. Stableford, Ian Macdonald, Colin Greenland, Eric Brown, John Gribbin, David S. Garnett, Simon D. Ings, Jojo Bling, Elizabeth Sourbut
Zenith (By: Lisa Tuttle,David S. Garnett,Elizabeth Sourbut) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction (With: Lisa Tuttle,Garry Douglas Kilworth,Michael Moorcock,Storm Constantine,Brian M. Stableford,Ian Macdonald,Colin Greenland,Eric Brown,John Gribbin,David S. Garnett,Simon D. Ings,Jojo Bling) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Lovecraft Squad Books

All Hallows Horror (By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Waiting (With: Brian Hodge,Kim Newman,Steve Tem,Michael Marshall Smith,Stephen Jones,Angela Slatter,Richard Gavin,Peter Atkins,Reggie Oliver,Jay Russell,Thana Nivero) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dreaming (With: Brian Hodge,Kim Newman,Michael Marshall Smith,Lisa Morton,Stephen Jones,Angela Slatter,Lynda E. Rucker,John Llewellyn Probert,Reggie Oliver,Sean Hogan) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rising (By: Stephen Jones) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction(1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1994(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shakespearean Whodunnits(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Year's Best SF 2(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dark Terrors 4(1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction(1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nanotech(1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2000(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Year's Best SF 5(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2000(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Futures(2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Space Soldiers(2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Starlight 3(2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction: August 2001, Vol. 25, No. 8(2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction(2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dark Terrors 6(2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian(2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hard SF Renaissance(2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A.I.s(2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Space Opera Renaissance(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Forbidden Planets(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction(2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge(2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Year's Best SF 13(2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sideways In Crime(2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22(2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Golden Age SF(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2010(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Masked(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Starship Vectors(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Solaris Rising(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Multiverse(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Darker Terrors 7(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bridging Infinity(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fables from the Fountain(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Infinity's End(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Scarlet Traces(2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare Workers(2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book(2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book(2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Burning Brightly(2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Collision: Stories From the Science of CERN(2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Life Beyond Us(2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard fiction author. He was born on November 13, 1957 in Liverpool, England and lives in Northumberland. Before he became an author he studied mathematics at Cambridge University, obtained a doctorate in engineering at Southampton University and an MBA from Henley Management College. Stephen Baxter is also a chartered engineer and fellow of the British interplanetary Society. He taught physics, maths and information technology before he became a full- time author in 1995.He was strongly influenced by Science Fiction pioneer H.G. Wells. He is President of the British Science Fiction Association and a Vice-president of the international H.G. Wells Society.

Stephen Baxter’s first professionally published work appeared in 1987 in the form of a short story, his first novel came in 1995. He has since 1987 published over forty books, mainly science fiction novels and over 100 short stories.
Stephen Baxter’s work has been published in the US, the UK and many other countries including Japan, France and Germany. He has won many awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award in Germany, the Seiun Award in Japan. He has been nominated for many awards such as the Arthur C Clarke Award, Locus Award and the Hugo Award. Several of his short stories have also won awards.

Stephen Baxter’s Novel Voyage was dramatised for the BBC Radio and was broadcast in 1999. His TV and movie projects includes the script for Episode 3 of space Island One which was broadcast on Sky One in January of 1998 and the development work on the BBC’S Invasion: Earth, which was broadcast in 1998. The science of the Avatar movie was a blockbuster.

Stephen Baxter’s Future History was based on research into hard science. It includes the monumental Xeelee Sequence, 4 novellas and 46 short stories, all of which form a single timeline stretching from the BIG Bang singularity of the past to Stephen Baxter’s Timelike Infinity singularity of the future.
The Raft is both Stephen Baxter’s the first novel and the first novel in the Xeelee Sequence. In 1992, the Raft was nominated for the Arthur C Clark Award. The Raft relates the story of a group of humans who have accidentally entered an alternate universe where the gravitational force is many times stronger than our own. In this universe, planets don’t exist as they would quickly collapse under their own gravity. The stars are only a mile wide and have very short life spans. Here human bodies have a gravity field in and of themselves. The few humans there exists in divided and highly stratified communities and survive in a nebula of breathable air. The social elites live on the “Raft” which is the remains of the starship that has almost all the high technology, and the workers live on “Belt” worlds where they burn star kernel. The “Boneys” a nomadic group of unmentionable live on worlds made out of corpses.

How exactly humans came to be in this universe is unknown, and hints in the story point to the possibility of the Raft ship having come through a rift in our universe into the alternate reality. The alternate universe these humans live in adheres to the same laws as our universe except that its gravitational force is ordered of magnitude greater than in our own universe. The physics of this alternate universe slowly turns the nebula into an increasing hostile environment and the bizarre native species and the humans suffer the effects of the environmental collapse.

Timelike Infinity published in 1992 is the second novel in the Xeelee Sequence. This novel creates a universe of powerful alien beings and technologies and maintains a realistic angle because of Stephen Baxter’s scientific background. It is set in the year 5407 AD, and mankind has been overpowered by the Qax. These are an alien turbulent fluid form of life and they now rule the star systems of human space. The Qax adopt system and processes from man’s history to completely oppress the humans. Previously, the human had come into contact with a few other alien races, including the very advanced Xeelee and had been overpowered once before by the squeem and every time the humans had successfully recovered. A man -made craft, the interface device, returns to the solar system 1500 years later. The craft, towed by the space vessel Cauchy, returns a wormhole gate, seeming to allow time travel because of the difference between the outlets of the wormhole, with one outlet being in the solar system and the other travelling at almost the speed of light for 100 years. The invaders, the Qax, had destroyed the wormhole gate, but the lashed up human ship enters through the returning gate. It travels back to the undefeated humanity, 1500 years before. A crew member of the space vessel Cauchy comes back with the friends, Miriam Berg. They have a complex plan, from the Winger experiment; they postulated an extraordinary theorem on the final destiny of life in the universe. The friends are of the view that quantum wave functions don’t collapse as held by the Copenhagen interpretation, but rather that the universe is a participatory universe. That is the universe exists as a single huge quantum superstructure and that at the end of time, when intelligent life will have collected all information and transformed into the Complete or Ultimate observer who will then make the last observation. This observation will collapse all the entangled wave functions generated since the creation of the universe. The friends further hold that the ultimate observer will also decide which world line will be the real world line and that the observer will select the one in which humanity endures no Qax or squeem conquests or occupations. The Ultimate observer will only choose between world lines if relevant information is available at its age to distinguish world lines. If the Ultimate observer does not know humanity, it cannot decide on a world line favourable to it. So a way must be found to safely and surely send information into the future. The friends plan to turn Jupiter into an expertly formed singularity and use the detailed parameters as a mode of encoding information. With the threat of the future of the Qax, Miriam Berg is worried over the immediate fate of the human race and transmits an SOS to Michael Poole, the gate designer. The Qax, panic over the escape and choose to build their interface, with human help from collaborators lead Jasoft Parz, and create a link with the future to gain assistance in settling the problem. This is done in just one and half years. An amazing high technology future spaceship, with the future Qax, passes through the gate, executes the Qax earth governor and seize Parz before exiting via the original gate after all humanity and the friends. The Qax decide to eliminate space faring capabilities of humans and completely destroy humans. The Qax are economic traders and want to first extract as much value out of their human pilots as possible. They send a pilot named Jim Bolder in a modified Xeelee night fighter to the Great Attractor, which is the cause of most galactic drift to investigate how and why it exists. Jim Bolder travels to the base of the gravitational well and discovers the Ring. It is a torus made of unknown material and is a thousand light years in diameter, and rotating at the a greater fraction of the speed of light. The Qax postulate that the torus created a Kerr metric effect and was actually an escape route for the Xeelee. Jim Bolder miraculously survives the dangerous mission and on return to the Qax home system is captured by the Qax spline warships. Bolder manages to escape and in the fight that follows the Qax star-breakers accidently fire at the primary star of the Qax system making it to-go nova. The Qax hurriedly evacuate but many of them die and their trading empire collapses.

In the past, Michael Poole joins Miriam Berg on their vessel just before the Qax arrive, having come in his spaceship, Hermit Crab. He is with his virtual father, Harry. They avoid the control of the friends whose mission fails because of bombardment by Spline’s star breaker beam. Commandeering the cannon used to sculpt Jupiter, they fire into the Spline and assisted by Jasoft Parz’s betrayal, Michael Poole rams his ship into the Spline warship and kills the sapience. Harry takes over given his superior intelligence and at Michael Poole’s direction steer the spaceship into the wormhole. Once inside the wormhole Poole activates the hyperdrive and shutters its delicate dimensional warping and that of the wormholes connecting to it and in so doing saves mankind from future alien interference.

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One Response to “Stephen Baxter”

  1. Jane Nuth: 8 months ago

    Dear Stephen
    My husband, Rick, has just finished reading “The Thousand Earths” – and thoroughly enjoyed the book (he has read several others).
    I write to ask what is your latest book and when will it be available?
    Yours hopefully
    Jane Nuth

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