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Stephen Baxter


Born
in Liverpool, Lancashire, The United Kingdom
November 13, 1957

Website

Genre
Science Fiction, Fantasy

Influences
H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke ...more


Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is currently working on his next novel, a collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 305,223 ratings · 21,572 reviews · 414 distinct works • Similar authors
Time (Manifold #1)
3.80 avg rating — 8,208 ratings — published 1999 — 33 editions
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Proxima
3.81 avg rating — 7,482 ratings — published 2013 — 28 editions
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The Time Ships
3.96 avg rating — 6,613 ratings — published 1995 — 34 editions
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Flood (Flood, #1)
3.63 avg rating — 5,788 ratings — published 2008 — 35 editions
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Space (Manifold, #2)
3.91 avg rating — 5,370 ratings — published 2000 — 21 editions
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Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
3.68 avg rating — 5,137 ratings — published 1991 — 26 editions
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Ark (Flood, #2)
3.88 avg rating — 4,102 ratings — published 2009 — 30 editions
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Ring (Xeelee Sequence, #4)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,955 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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Evolution
4.02 avg rating — 3,413 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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Vacuum Diagrams (Xeelee Seq...
4.08 avg rating — 3,236 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions
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Series by Stephen Baxter

Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams Making History & Reality Dust Riding the Rock
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Time Space Manifold: Origin Phase Space
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3.82 avg rating — 17,566 ratings

Proxima Ultima Obelisk
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Flood Ark
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3.74 avg rating — 10,385 ratings

Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent
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“We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.”
― Stephen Baxter, Ark
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“When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.”
― Stephen Baxter, Vacuum Diagrams
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“In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.”
― Stephen Baxter, Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice
tags: doctor-who, tardis, time-and-space, time-travel
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