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White Tetrahedron
 
Stephen Baxter: Resplendent
Resplendent
Destiny's Children Book 4

Gollancz
2006

Stephen Baxter: Transendent
Transcendent
Destiny's Children Book 3

Gollancz
September 2005

Stephen Baxter: Exultant
Exultant
Destiny's Children Book 2

Gollancz
September 2004

Stephen Baxter: Coalescent
Coalescent
Destiny's Children Book 1

Gollancz
October 2003

Stephen Baxter: Weaver
Weaver
Time's Tapestry Book 4

Gollancz
February 2008

Stephen Baxter: Navigator
Navigator
Time's Tapestry Book 3

Gollancz
July 2007

Stephen Baxter: Conqueror
Conqueror
Time's Tapestry Book 2

Gollancz
February 2007

Stephen Baxter: Emperor
Emperor
Time's Tapestry Book 1

Gollancz
July 2006

Stephen Baxter: Flood
Flood

Gollancz
2008

Stephen Baxter: Ark
Ark

Gollancz
2009

Stephen Baxter: Firstborn
Firstborn
A Time Odyssey Book 3

(with Arthur C Clarke)

Del Rey (US)
March 2008

Stephen Baxter: Sunstorm
Sunstorm
A Time Odyssey Book 2

(with Arthur C Clarke)

Del Rey (US)
March 2005

Stephen Baxter: Time's Eye
Times Eye
A Time Odyssey Book 1

(with Arthur C Clarke)

Del Rey (US)
Feb 2004

Stephen Baxter: Phase Space
Phase Space
Manifold Book 4

HarperCollins (UK)
August 2002

Stephen Baxter: Origin
Origin
Manifold Book 3

HarperCollins (UK)
August 2001

Stephen Baxter: Space
Space
Manifold Book 2

HarperCollins (UK)
August 2000

Stephen Baxter: Time
Time
Manifold Book 1

HarperCollins (UK)
August 1999

Stephen Baxter: Behemoth
Behemoth
Mammoth - Omnibus

Gollancz
November 2004

Stephen Baxter: Icebones
Icebones
Mammoth Book 3

Gollancz
March 2001

Stephen Baxter: Longtusk
Longtusk
Mammoth Book 2

Gollancz
January 2000

Stephen Baxter: Silverhair
Silverhair
Mammoth Book 1

Gollancz
January 1999

Stephen Baxter: Moonseed
Moonseed

NASA Trilogy Book 3

HarperCollins
August 1998 (UK).

Stephen Baxter: Titan
Titan

NASA Trilogy Book 2

HarperCollins
August 1997 (UK).

Stephen Baxter: Voyage
Voyage

NASA Trilogy Book 1

HarperCollins
November 1996 (UK).

Stephen Baxter: Vacuum Diagrams
Vacuum Diagrams
The Xeelee Sequence Book 5

HarperCollins
April 1997

Stephen Baxter: Ring
Ring
The Xeelee Sequence Book 4

HarperCollins
July 1994

Stephen Baxter: Flux
Flux
The Xeelee Sequence Book 3

HarperCollins
December 1993

Stephen Baxter: Timelike Infinity
Timelike Infinity
The Xeelee Sequence Book 2

HarperCollins
December 1992

Stephen Baxter: Raft
Raft
The Xeelee Sequence Book 1

HarperCollins
July 1991

Stephen Baxter: Webcrash
Webcrash
The Web Book 2

Orion Books
October 1998

Stephen Baxter: Gulliver
Gulliver Zone
The Web Book 1

Orion Books
October 1997

Stephen Baxter: The H Bomb Girl
The H Bomb Girl

Faber & Faber
2007

Stephen Baxter: The Hunters of Pangaea
The Hunters of Pangaea

NESFA Press (US)
February 2004

Stephen Baxter: Evolution
Evolution

Gollancz
November 2002

Stephen Baxter: The Light of Other Days
The Light of Other Days

(with Arthur C Clarke)

HarperCollins (UK)
2000

Stephen Baxter: Traces
Traces

HarperCollins (UK)
April 1998

Stephen Baxter: The Time Ships
The Time Ships

HarperCollins (UK)
May 1995

Stephen Baxter: Anti-Ice
Anti-Ice

HarperCollins
January 1993

Stephen Baxter: Revolutions in the Earth
Revolutions in the Earth
Non-Fiction
James Hutton and the True Age of the World

Weidenfield and Nicolson
June 2003

Stephen Baxter: Omegatropic
Omegatropic
Non-Fiction

British Science Fiction Association
June 2001

Stephen Baxter: Deep Future
Deep Future
Non-Fiction

Gollancz
January 2001



News

Posted March 2008
Death of Sir Arthur C Clarke.
The death of Sir Arthur Clarke was announced on 18th March 2008. There is a tribute by Stephen Baxter in the 'Articles' section of this website.


Posted March 2008
Baxter to appear in Liverpool in September.
Stephen Baxter is to speak on Monday September 8th at the British Association's Festival of Science, which this year is to be held in Baxter's home town of Liverpool to celebrate its year as European City of Culture. Details are to be confirmed.


Posted March 2008
Baxter Nominated for Hugo Award.
Stephen Baxter's short story 'Last Contact' has been nominated for the Hugo Award for best sf short story of 2007. The award will be presented at this year's Worldcon, Denvention 3 in Denver, Colorado (6-10 August), which Baxter hopes to attend.

'Last Contact' was first published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. George Mann, BL Publishing, 2007, and reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 25th Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St Martin's Press, 2008.

The story "Last Contact" is available online at solarisbooks


Posted March 2008
Baxter Nominated for Clarke Award.
Stephen Baxter's young adult novel The H-Bomb Girl (Faber) has been nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award for the best sf novel published in Britain in 2007. The award will be presented on 30th April at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. See www.clarkeaward.com


Posted March 2008
Baxter joints SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup.
Following his attendance in February 2008 at a meeting in Arizona of the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) Permanent Study Group, Stephen Baxter has been appointed to the Post-Detection Taskgroup, which is responsible for policies concerning science protocols, news handling and other issues were a signal from an alien civilisation to be detected. Baxter is to attend the PSG's next meeting in Paris, September 2008.


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Posted August 2007
Baxter in SETI workshop.
Stephen Baxter has been invited to participate in a workshop on the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the Arizona State University's Beyond Institute in February 2008. The idea is to rethink search strategies after fifty years of radio silence from the sky.


Posted August 2007
Evolution new edition.
Gollancz have issued a new edition of Stephen Baxter's Evolution (2002) in their 'Future Classics' series of eight titles. The cover image, rendered in black felt on a glossy black background, has to be stroked to be believed...


Posted August 2007
Stephen Baxter appointed advisor of Focus Magazine.
The BBC's Focus magazine has run a number of features by Stephen Baxter, including an ongoing 'What if?' column on alternate histories. Now Baxter has joined the magazine's panel of advisors, along with such figures as Heather Couper, Sir Arthur C Clarke, and Lord Robert Winston. See www.bbcfocusmagazine.com


Posted August 2007
Baxter story in best of 30 years of Asimov's.
Stephen Baxter's story 'The Children of Time' has been reprinted in Asimov's SF Magazine 30th Anniversary Anthology, (ed. Sheila Williams, Tachyon Books, 2007), a selection of the editors' pick of the best stories published during the magazine's 30-year run. Baxter's first publication in Asimov's was 'Planck Zero' (1992). 'The Children of Time' won the Asimov's Reader's Poll Award for the magazine's best short story of 2005.


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Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter to give H.G.Wells Lecture
Stephen Baxter, a Vice President of the HG Wells Society, is to give a public lecture as part of the Society’s conference to be held at Imperial College, London, on Friday 28th September 2007.

The theme of the conference is ‘Wells and philosophy’, and Baxter’s talk will be titled: ‘The War of the Worlds: A Controlling Metaphor for the 20th Century’.


Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter to Guest at Eurocon
Stephen Baxter is to be a Guest of Honour at Eurocon 2007, the 29th European Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Denmark, 21-23 September 2007.


Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter contributes to Mars study.
Since 2004 Stephen Baxter has been working with a group from the British Interplanetary Society on a design study for a manned base at the Martian north pole. Baxter is a Fellow of the BIS. The study, led by astrobiologist Charles Cockell, has now been published under the title 'Project Boreas', and Cockell will present the conclusions at a seminar in London in March 2007 www.bis-spaceflight.com Baxter says, 'This study follows a fine tradition dating back to the earliest days of the BIS, when a group including Arthur C Clarke worked on an ahead-of-its-time study of a lunar mission.'


Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter Signs New Contract
Stephen Baxter has sold the worldwide rights in two new novels to Gollancz Publishers via his agent PFD. Baxter says that ‘Flood’ (to be published in autumn 2008) and ‘Ark’(autumn 2009) will be ‘stories of a global convulsion and its aftermath’. Gollancz’s UK editions will be the world first.


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