In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent and unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 2001: A Space Odyssey.’Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?’ With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revol...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Imaginative, sense-of-wonder at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters' Independent on Sunday'A thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride' SFX2040-2045: In the years after a cataclysmic eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee to myriad Long Earth worlds.Sally, Joshua, and Lobsan...

In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK's planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—"a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility" ( Kirkus).In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket. Historical...

It came here decades ago—and it's devouring our planet: "Literally earth-shattering action . . . Baxter provides the sense of wonder of classic science fiction." — Denver PostIt starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Days later, a few specks of moon rock kicked up from the last Apollo missi...

1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is t...

Greggson Deirdra can't remember how her life ended. But she knows that once she tried to save the Earth. And now she has been brought back . . .In Greggson Deirdra's time, humanity understood that the formation of the Solar System had been shaped by mysterious beings known as the World Engineers. They also knew that one day Earth would again face another planet-shaping collision in the future. Determined to avert the catastrophe, Deirdra had assembled a small crew ...

The first novel in a brilliant collaboration between the visionary Discworld® creator Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science fiction novelist Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to an infinity of new worlds—a series of parallel “earths" with doorways leading to adventure, intrigue, excitement, and an escape into the furthest reaches of the imagination. All it takes is a single step. . . .The possibilities are endless. (Just be...

A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth...

The mind-blowing, time-warping science fiction epic that puts grand scientific ideas into a thrilling page-turning narrativeFresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA.In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if w...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Rich in an awe-inspiring sense of wonder' Independent'A hymn to the joys of unfettered world-building' Guardian2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, ...

How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was...

THE EXTRAORDINARY FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE BESTSELLING LONG EARTH SERIES'Intricately described . . . gently immersive' Guardian'Enthralling and thought-provoking in equal measure' Daily Mail'A love letter to science-fiction itself' SFX2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human so...