Traces by Stephen Baxter
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 vision 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.`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 SFThey 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
The author was born in 1957. Raised in Liverpool, he has a mathematics degree from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D from Southampton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002254274 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002254271 |
| Title | Traces |
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1998-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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