<p>‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’<br /><em>THE TIMES</em></p> <p>‘The best SF writer in Britain’<br /><em>SFX</em></p> <p> <em>Praise for Stephen Baxter’s short fiction:</em> </p> <p>‘The stories are the purest distillation of hard SF. They add up to an essential collection’<br /><em>INTERZONE</em></p> <p>‘A luminous collection . . . Baxter can overwhelm you with a traditional SF “sense of wonder” until your jaw drops’<br /><em>SFX</em></p> <p>‘Baxter sends into free-fall the most awesome ideas in science fiction today … [He] reveals the mortal host in the machine.’<br /><em>THE TIMES</em></p>

Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind. There are visions of histories which differ from our own, either through small changes – what if Germany had won WWI (‘Mittelwelt’) – or through a fundamental difference in physical laws – what if Archimedes had been right in his clockwork-like cosmological vision (‘No Longer Touch the Earth’). There are visions of futures in which people struggle to survive in a variety of bizarre environments (‘Downstream’, ‘The Blood of Angels’), or, weakened and powerless, inhabit the end of worlds (‘Inherit the Earth’, ‘George and the Comet’). There are explorations of astonishing events of our own lifetimes, in particular the grand expansion into space (‘Zemlya’, ‘Moon Six’, ‘Pilgrim 7’). These visions give an impression of the contingency of our everyday here-and-now, surrounded as it is by an infinite array of possible pasts, presents, and futures.
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Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind.
‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’THE TIMES ‘The best SF writer in Britain’SFX Praise for Stephen Baxter’s short fiction: ‘The stories are the purest distillation of hard SF. They add up to an essential collection’INTERZONE ‘A luminous collection . . . Baxter can overwhelm you with a traditional SF “sense of wonder” until your jaw drops’SFX ‘Baxter sends into free-fall the most awesome ideas in science fiction today … [He] reveals the mortal host in the machine.’THE TIMES
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• Baxter’s THE TIME SHIPS has won three major awards and was runner-up in two others • Titan has already been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award • Baxter’s first collection of short stories, VACUUM DIAGRAMS, was very well received
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008134563
Publisert
2016-06-16
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperVoyager
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

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Biographical note

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, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Northumberland.