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Stephen Baxter


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

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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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Time (Manifold #1)

3.79 avg rating — 7,988 ratings — published 1999 — 34 editions
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Proxima

3.81 avg rating — 7,234 ratings — published 2013 — 28 editions
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The Time Ships

3.95 avg rating — 6,396 ratings — published 1995 — 35 editions
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Space (Manifold, #2)

3.91 avg rating — 5,295 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
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Flood (Flood, #1)

3.63 avg rating — 5,665 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

3.68 avg rating — 4,711 ratings — published 1991 — 26 editions
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Ark (Flood, #2)

3.88 avg rating — 4,021 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Ring (Xeelee Sequence, #4)

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,839 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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Evolution

4.02 avg rating — 3,341 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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Ultima

3.67 avg rating — 3,459 ratings — published 2014 — 31 editions
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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

“When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.”
Stephen Baxter, Vacuum Diagrams

“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

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