Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare WorkersĬollision: Stories From the Science of CERN The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collectionįlotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual CollectionĪsimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999Īsimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2000Īsimov's Science Fiction: August 2001, Vol. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (Jan.Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction Still, faults aside, there's plenty here to spark the veteran SF reader's sense of wonder.

The first half of this novel could easily have been cut by 50 pages or so with little loss. Clarke and Olaf Stapledon the ability to portray enormous vistas of time and space to great effect, but his characters can be clumsily drawn and his plots unwieldy. Baxter is the equal of Gregory Benford or Greg Bear when it comes to describing spectacular astronomical phenomena and truly weird science, and he shares with Arthur C. Throw in a race of mutant, starfaring squid the sudden appearance on Earth of children with superhuman intelligence and a mysterious connection to the artifact Malenfant finds on Cruithne a Cook's tour of literally hundreds of alternate universes and a spectacularly unsuccessful romance with at least two endings, and you've got a novel that's as overgrown as it is misshapen. Things soon take a strange turn, however, when Malenfant receives evidence both that humanity will be wiped out within the next 200 years and that proof of this claim can be found on a near-Earth asteroid named Cruithne. In this first volume in his Manifold trilogy, he combines both types of story, beginning with what appears to be the straightforward tale of Reid Malenfant, a millionaire industrialist who tries to circumvent a near-moribund NASA and start his own on-the-cheap space program. Baxter is well known for both realistic near-future, alternate-history novels (Voyage) and the wildest sort of hard-science speculation (Flux Timelike Infinity).

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