What would you do if the Sun went out? In this standalone novel, a near-future Earth faces a devastating cosmic intervention . . .

Gollancz, 21 October 2021.

In this sequel to Destroyer, Reid Malenfant and Greggson Deirdra, lost in a maze of alternate Solar Systems, seek the truth about life on Earth and in the universe.

Gollancz, 20 August 2020.

In the near future Earth has recovered from the climate crisis. But in the far future an inexorable threat approaches, itself a relic of the deep past, and of the World Engines that created the planets.

Gollancz, 19 September 2019.

Look out for the sequel, World Engines: Creator, due in September 2020.

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The sequel to Vengeance: the climax of Michael Poole’s vendetta against the Xeelee who wrecked the Solar System – and Poole’s own life.

Gollancz, 23 August 2018.

A new edition of my first novel, with an introduction by Alastair Reynolds.

Gateway, 19 June 2017.

A collection of three collaborative short stories – one an award winner.

Infinity Plus, 5 January 2018.

Across the Galaxy, humans fought the Xeelee for a million years. But the Xeelee plan on timescales much longer than that. And now they are determined to correct a blemish in their history

. . . Look out for the sequel, Xeelee: Redemption, Gollancz, August 2018.

Gollancz, 19 June 2017.

A sequel to HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds: the Martians have returned to finish the war . . .

Gollancz, 19 January 2017.

Stories in the universe of Proxima, and others.

Gollancz, 18 August 2016

In the final book of the Long Earth series, Joshua and Lobsang take their strangest step of all.

By Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

Doubleday, 30 June 2016.

The fourth book in the Long Earth sequence.

On a warm, green world, a million steps from Datum Earth, something wrong is breaking through . . .

Transworld, 19 June 2015.

The third book in the Long Earth sequence.

Five years after the supervolcano, the Long Earth is in chaos – but another world beckons . . .

Transworld, 19 June 2014.

The sequel to The Long Earth.

A generation after Step Day, new communities in the Long Earth are growing restless, and mankind is disturbing the balance of a million worlds . . .

Transworld, 20 June 2013.

It was a gadget anybody could make. But it opened up the walls of the world ...

Transworld, June 21 2012.

By Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds

Gollancz, 19 May 2016.

The first new collection set in the Xeelee Sequence since 2006.

A compilation of Timelike Infinity, Raft, Flux and Ring, with a new introduction by Paul McAuley.

Due January 2010.

A series of linked stories setting out the epic five-million-year story of mankind and the Xeelee.

HarperCollins April 1997.

A human starship sails across space and to the farthest future, where the secret war for the universe is waged.

HarperCollins July 1994.

Dura is an engineered human a fraction of an inch tall, swimming in the magnetic flux at the heart of a neutron star.

HarperCollins December 1993.

Mankind optimistically heading for the stars is devastated by an invasion by alien conquerors from the future.

HarperCollins December 1992.

Refugees from the war with the Xeelee find themselves stranded in a universe where gravity is a billion times stronger, and the mile-wide stars burn out in a few years.

HarperCollins July 1991.

The sequel to Proxima. A saga of manipulated histories, alien worlds, and a devastating cosmic secret.

Gollancz, 27 November 2014.

A new age of exploration, on a world of the nearest star to the sun . . .

Gollancz, 29 March 2013.

Stories set in three universes . . .

Includes sequels to Flood and Ark, and stories set in the universe of Anti-Ice.

PS Publishing, 29 March 2013.

The late twenty-first century. The Wheel of Ice is a mining colony orbiting Saturn, mankind’s frontier in this age. But now a spinning blue box appears, adrift in Saturn’s rings.

BBC Books 16th August 2012.

Gollancz 19th April 2012.

A collection of short stories mostly from the last few years, with one original.

Newcon Press 26th April 2012.

Linked stories telling of the rise and fall of mankind across a million years, as witnessed by Luru Parz, a woman who will not die.

Gollancz 2006.

In 2037 Michael Poole faces the problems of a world reeling under climate collapse – while a girl from a far and strange future watches his life unfold.

Gollancz Sep 2005.

The battle for the centre of the Galaxy: the climax of a war that has raged between human and Xeelee for half a million years.

Gollancz Sep 2004.

George Poole, searching for his lost sister, uncovers a shattering family secret - a strange and ancient community who are no longer human – and portends of a dark future.

Gollancz Oct 2003.

In a 1940s Britain under the heel of Nazi Germany, the saga of the Weaver of Time's Tapestry comes to a climax.

Gollancz February 2008.

1492: the fall of the only Muslim state in western Europe, the sailing of Christopher Columbus - and the target of another devastating historical intervention by the Weaver.

Gollancz July 2007.

A bloody saga of Anglo-Saxon Britain, as the Weaver of Time's Tapestry seeks to manipulate the most crucial date in British history: 1066.

Gollancz February 2007.

A mysterious prophecy shapes the destiny of a family through four centuries of the Roman occupation of Britain.

Gollancz July 2006.

The sequel to Flood. A desperate evacuation from a drowning Earth - the last hope of human civilisation.

Gollancz, August 2009.

This century the sea will rise, to drown low-lying islands and coasts. But what if it kept on rising? Where would you run to? A novel of global catastrophe.

Gollancz, Autumn 2008.

For thousands of years the Wall has preserved Northland from the rising sea. But now, in a different fourteenth century, the world’s weather shifts once again.

Gollancz, August 2012.

For thousands of years Northland’s Wall has defied the rising ocean. But now a new threat arises, a human threat, from rising empires of Bronze Age warriors ...

Gollancz, September 2011.

A saga of alternate prehistory. 7300BC: The Stone Age, and the waters encroach on the lush plain between Britain and Europe that will some day be the bed of the North Sea. But one woman dreams of forcing back the sea...

Gollancz, June 2010.

A traumatised mankind, creeping cautiously between the planets, must once again face a Firstborn attack - and pay a devastating price for survival.

Del Rey (US), March 2008.

Bisesa Dutt returns to an Earth directly threatened by a Firstborn intervention and an unstable sun.

Del Rey (US), Mar 2005.

Bisesa Dutt, peacekeeper in Afghanistan, is hurled into a new world, a patchwork where past and future collide and the alien Firstborn manipulate reality.

Del Rey (US), Feb 2004.

More stories of Reid Malenfant and the Manifold, and universes beyond.

HarperCollins (UK) August 2002.

A third universe, where a new and brooding Moon appears in Earth’s sky, and Malenfant must seek out the Old Ones, architects of a Manifold of infinite universes.

HarperCollins (UK) August 2001.

Another universe, another Malenfant: in this crowded universe alien emissaries bring bad news from another star.

HarperCollins (UK) August 2000.

The many universes of the Manifold: Reid Malenfant, astronaut entrepreneur, faces the future of a mankind alone in an inhospitable cosmos.

HarperCollins (UK) August 1999.

An omnibus edition of the three ‘Mammoth’ novels.

Gollancz November 2004

Silverhair’s daughter, leads the mammoth family as they begin a strange new chapter of their existence – on the cold plains of Mars.

Gollancz March 2001

At the close of the Ice Age Longtusk, a bold mammoth male, faces a struggle for survival in the face of an explosive expansion by humanity.

Gollancz January 2000.

On an Arctic island, Silverhair leads her family, the last mammoths, who have survived in isolation since the Ice Age. Now Silverhair faces the ultimate threat – man.

Orion Books January 1999.

A box of Apollo Moon rocks, sealed since the 1970s, is at last opened - and a virulent plague is released, threatening the very fabric of Earth itself.

HarperCollins August 1998

As a Cold War between China and the US threatens to turn devastatingly hot, NASA assembles a desperate mission to a strange new world: Titan, moon of Saturn.

HarperCollins August 1997

An alternate history. After the triumph of the Apollo missions to the Moon, President Nixon decides not to build the space shuttle, but to devote NASA’s resources to a new objective: Mars, by 1986.

HarperCollins November 1996

(Young adult): Metaphor is caught in a war between two colliding virtual worlds: space opera warriors versus Vikings …

Orion Books, October 1998.

(Young adult.) Metaphor, 14 years old, explores a virtual-reality theme park based on Gulliver’s Travels, and faces a very real danger.

Orion Books, Jun 1997.

(Young adult): Laura is 14 years old in Liverpool, England, October 1962: as the Beatles' new music pours out of the Cavern, the Cold War grows hot, and Laura faces her own troubling future.

Faber & Faber 2007.

Short story collection - Tales of wonder and exploration.

NESFA Press (US) February 2004.

The ultimate family saga: the rise of the primitive primates who survived the fall of the dinosaurs, through ages of Darwinian shaping becoming human – and, in the furthest future, their final fall.

Gollancz November 2002.

In the near future, technology delivers a way to inspect the past directly – from history’s deepest ages, to a mere second ago. And in a world become a goldfish bowl, everything changes.

HarperCollins (UK) 2000.

Short story collection, stories set in strange pasts and remote futures, and startlingly different presents.

HarperCollins (UK) April 1998.

The only authorised sequel to HG Wells’s The Time Machine (1895). Wells’s Time Traveller sets off for his second venture into futurity – and finds a universe devastatingly changed.

HarperCollins (UK) May 1995.

In a different 1870, the British Empire is the only superpower – and steam-powered spaceships fly to the Moon.

HarperCollins July 1993.

James Hutton and the True Age of the World. The biography of James Hutton (1726-1797), the founder of modern geology and the first man to discern the true antiquity of the Earth.

Weidenfield and Nicolson June 2003.

Fiction, and reflections on science and science fiction.

British Science Fiction Association June 2001.

A portrait of the future and the destiny of mankind: fact, not fiction.

Gollancz January 2001.