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Stephen Baxter: Creation Node (Book)
Creation Node

Gollancz
21 September 2023

Stephen Baxter: The Thousand Earths (Book)
The Thousand Earths

Gollancz
29 September 2022

Stephen Baxter: Galaxias (Book)
Galaxias

Gollancz
21 October 2021

Stephen Baxter: World Engines: Creator (Book)
World Engines: Creator

Gollancz
20 August 2020

Stephen Baxter: World Engines: Destroyer (Book)
World Engines: Destroyer

Gollancz
19 September 2019

Stephen Baxter: Xeelee: Redemption (Book)
Xeelee: Redemption

Gollancz
23 August 2018

Stephen Baxter: Raft: SF Masterworks Edition (Book)
Raft: SF Masterworks Edition

Gateway
12 July 2018

Stephen Baxter: The Spacetime Pit Plus Two (Book)
The Spacetime Pit Plus Two

Infinity Plus
5 January 2018

Stephen Baxter: Xeelee: Vengence (Book)
Xeelee: Vengence

Gollancz
15 June 2017

Stephen Baxter: The Massacre of Mankind (Book)
The Massacre of Mankind

Gollancz
19 January 2017

Stephen Baxter: Obelisk (Book)
Obelisk

Gollancz
18 August 2016

Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Cosmos (Book)
The Long Cosmos

Doubleday
30 June 2016

Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds: The Medusa Chronicles (Book)
The Medusa Chronicles

Gollancz
19 May 2016

Stephen Baxter: Xeelee: Endurance
Xeelee: Endurance

Orion Fiction
17 September 2015

Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Utopia
The Long Utopia

Transworld
19 June 2015

Stephen Baxter: Ultima
Ultima

Gollancz
27 November 2014

Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Mars
The Long Mars

Transworld
19 June 2014

Stephen Baxter: proxima
Proxima

Gollancz
19 September 2013

Stephen Baxter: Universes
Universes

PS Publishing
29 March 2013

Stephen Baxter: The Long War
The Long War

Transworld
20 June 2013

Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth
The Long Earth

Transworld
21st June 2012

Stephen Baxter: Doctor Who : The Wheel of Ice
Doctor Who : The Wheel of Ice

BBC Books
16th August 2012

Stephen Baxter: The Science of Avatar
The Science of Avatar

Gollancz
19th April 2012

Stephen Baxter: Last and First Contact
Last and First Contacts

Newcon Press
26th April 2012

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: Stone Spring
Stone Spring

Gollancz
June 2010

Stephen Baxter: Bronze Summer
Bronze Summer

Gollancz
September 2011

Stephen Baxter: Iron Winter
Iron Winter

Gollancz
16th August 2012

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: A Xeelee Omnibus
A Xeelee Omnibus
A Xeelee Sequence Book

Due:
January 2010

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 Archive

Posted April 2023

Honorary degree
Stephen Baxter is presented with honorary degree by the Open University:

Stephen Baxter: Open University Honorary Degree
On 31 March 2023, in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK, Stephen Baxter was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the University by the Open University. This was in recognition of "Services to the Arts and Sciences", and in particular to celebrate Stephen's "extraordinary contribution to science fiction writing . . . His works . . . have no doubt been responsible for sparking the imagination of scientific researchers."

Stephen says, "This was a great honour for me for which I'm very grateful - and a recognition of the role SF as a whole plays in creating interest in and enthusiasm for the sciences in successive generations. The graduation day itself was a terrific, uplifting occasion with the presentation of over a hundred new OU graduates, all happily supported by families and friends."

To read more about this story follow this link to the Open University website: Leading science-fiction writer receives Honorary Doctorate from the OU - OU News



Posted Sept 2022

New Novel - The Thousand Earths

Stephen Baxter's new novel The Thousand Earths was launched by Gollancz on 29 September 2022.



Posted Oct 2021

Galaxias

Stephen Baxter’s new novel Galaxias will be launched by Gollancz on 21 October 2021.



Posted Oct 2021

Stephen Baxter talk – on 20 Nov 2021, 1400 GMT

The British Interplanetary Society will host a talk by Stephen Baxter on the dark energy ramjet, one of the speculative technologies featured in Galaxias, and on how this propellant-free, cosmos-spanning spacecraft design might some day actually be built. Visit https://www.bis-space.com/event/the-wormship-a-dark-energy-ramjet-by-stephen-baxter/


Posted August 2021

World Engines: Creator

Stephen Baxter’s new novel World Engines: Creator will be launched by Gollancz on 20 August 2020.

Given the state of the world, no author events have been planned yet – possibly later in the year. Please keep watching this space.

Please keep safe.


Posted August 2020

World Engines: Creator

Stephen Baxter’s new novel World Engines: Creator will be launched by Gollancz on 20 August 2020.

Given the state of the world, no author events have been planned yet – possibly later in the year. Please keep watching this space.

Please keep safe.


Posted October 2019
World Engines: Destroyer Signing

To promote the launch of Word Engines: Destroyer, Stephen Baxter will be appearing with Peter F Hamilton and others at the following venues:

7pm Wednesday November 6, Waterstones Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD

12 30pm Thursday November 7, Blackwell’s, 146 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9GP

7pm Thursday November 7, Waterstones, Blackett St, Newcastle NE1 7JF.


Posted August 2019
World Engines: Destroyer Signing

Stephen Baxter will be signing copies of his new novel World Engines: Destroyer at Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR. 6pm, Wednesday 18th September 2019.

Click here for more information


Posted August 2018
Stephen Baxter Tour

In early September Stephen Baxter will be speaking and signing at bookshops across the country, with Peter F Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Click here for more information


Posted November 2017
Waterstones Book Signing

Stephen Baxter is appearing at Waterstones, Rose Lane, Canterbury, at 1830pm on Friday December 8th 2017, for a Q&A and book signing. Click here for more information


Posted November 2017
2017: A Clarke Odyssey

Stephen Baxter is speaking at 2017: A Clarke Odyssey: A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK Saturday 9th December 2017. Click here for more information


Posted January 2017
The Massacre of Mankind – Book Launch - London

Stephen Baxter will be in conversation with Frank Skinner at Waterstones, Piccadilly (London) on Wednesday 18th January at 7pm. Tickets are £5, book online, and is redeemable against the cost of the book. This will be best opportunity to get hold of Waterstones exclusive editions of the book (of which there’s a limited run of only 400). More information here.


Posted January 2017
The Massacre of Mankind – Book Signing - Birmingham

The Massacre of Mankind book signing at Waterstones, Birmingham 12:30pm until 1:30pm Thursday 19th January. More information, here.


Posted January 2017
The Massacre of Mankind – Book Signing - Nottingham

The Massacre of Mankind, a talk, followed by a signing at Waterstones, Nottingham 6:30pm Thursday 19th January. More information, here.


Posted January 2017
The Massacre of Mankind – Book Signing - Edinburgh

The Massacre of Mankind, a talk, followed by a signing at Blackwells, Edinburgh 6:30pm Friday 20th January. More information, here.


Posted January 2017
Gollancz E-book Box Sets

Gollancz have launched e-book box sets of several series of Stephen Baxter’s books: The Xeelee Sequence, Time’s Tapestry, Destiny’s Children, The Mammoth Sequence, The Northland Trilogy.


Posted January 2017
Harper Voyager new paperback editions

Harper Voyager have launched new paperback editions of several of Stephen Baxter’s novels: The Time Ships; Voyage, Titan and Moonseed; Manifold: Time, Space, Origin, Phase Space; Traces; The Light of Other Days (with Sir Arthur C Clarke).


Posted July 2016
Stephen Baxter will be appearing at the Gollancz Festival.

Stephen Baxter will be appearing at the Gollancz Festival, Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London, on 17-18 September 2016.


Posted April 2016
Stephen Baxter Appearing in Proms Concert Interval – On Saturday 6th August 2016

On Saturday 6th August 2016, Stephen Baxter will appear in a panel discussion on HG Wells during the interval of the BBC TV Proms broadcast of a performance of Holst’s Planets Suite.


Posted April 2016
Stephen Baxter at Woking in September – Stephen Baxter will give a talk on HG Wells at 1pm on 21 September 2016

Stephen Baxter will give a talk on HG Wells at 1pm on 21 September 2016 at the Wells Conference Centre, Woking, as part of the town’s celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Wells’s birth. A statue of Wells will be unveiled later that day. Click Here for a copy of the event programme


Posted April 2016
Stephen Baxter at Liverpool Festival – On Thursday 26th May 2016

On Thursday 26th May 2016, at 7pm, Stephen Baxter will present at a Masterclass on science fiction short story writing at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, as part of the Writing On The Wall festival.


Posted December 2015
Stephen Baxter to pen "unofficial" sequel to Wells' War of the Worlds.

Stephen Baxter is writing a sequel to HG Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds. Provisionally titled 'The Massacre of Mankind', the book will be published by Gollancz in early 2017. The book is an 'unofficial' continuation of Wells's story (that is endorsement from the HG Wells estate has not been sought).


Posted September 2015
Stephen Baxter will be a keynote speaker at the HG Wells Society International Conference 2016

Stephen Baxter will be a keynote speaker at the HG Wells Society International Conference 2016: ‘Anticipations: HG Wells and Science Fiction’, 8-10 July 2016, HG Wells Conference Centre, Woking. See the 'Anticipations' website for details.


Posted September 2015
Stephen Baxter will be signing his new book Xeelee: Endurance at Forbidden Planet on Thursday 17 September 2015.

Stephen Baxter will be signing his new book Xeelee: Endurance at Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Ave., London, at 6pm on Thursday 17 September 2015.


Posted September 2015
Stephen Baxter will be appearing at the Gollancz Festival at the Waterstones store in Manchester Deansgate, 6-9pm, Friday 16th October 2015.

Stephen Baxter will be appearing at the Gollancz Festival at the Waterstones store in Manchester Deansgate, 6-9pm, Friday 16th October 2015. See the 'Gollancz Festival' website for details.


Posted June 2015
HarperCollins are issuing e-book reprints of Stephen Baxter’s backlist titles.

HarperCollins are issuing e-book reprints of Stephen Baxter’s backlist titles: The Manifold books in October 2015, the NASA trilogy in December 2015, and The Time Ships, Traces, and The Light of Other Days (with Arthur C Clarke) in March 2016.


Posted June 2015
Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds are collaborating on a sequel to Arthur C Clarke’s classic story ‘A Meeting with Medusa’.

Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds are collaborating on a sequel to Arthur C Clarke’s classic story ‘A Meeting with Medusa’. ‘The Medusa Chronicles’ will be published by Gollancz in February 2016. See the Gollancz Blog for details.


Posted November 2014
Stephen Baxter will be signing his new novel Ultima at Forbidden Planet.

Stephen Baxter will be signing his new novel Ultima at Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on Monday 24th November 2014, 6-7pm. The official launch date is Thursday 27th November.


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Posted June 2014
Stephen Baxter will be appearing at UK Discworld

Stephen Baxter will be appearing at the UK Discworld Con, Manchester, 8-11 August 2014.


Posted June 2014
Stephen Baxter will be appearing at Loncon 3

Stephen Baxter will be appearing at Loncon 3, the World Science Fiction Convention, London, 14-18 August 2014.


Posted June 2014
Stephen Baxter will be taking part in Extraterrestrial Liberty II

Stephen Baxter will be taking part in the ‘Extraterrestrial Liberty II: Governance Beyond the Earth’at the British Interplanetary Society, London, 12-13 June 2014.



Posted September 2013
Stephen Baxter will give an interview at the Durham Book Festival.

Durham Book Festival: Stephen Baxter will be interviewed about 'The Long War' at the Durham Book Festival on Saturday 12th October at 12pm in Durham Town Hall.


Posted August 2013
Stephen Baxter will give a talk at a meeting of the Institute of Physics.

Revolt on Mars: Stephen Baxter will give a talk on ‘Revolt on Mars: Freedom Beyond the Earth’ at a meeting of the Institute of Physics to be held at the Lit and Phil, Newcastle, 21 November 2013.


Posted March 2013
Stephen Baxter will be an invited speaker at a seminar on ‘Extraterrestrial Liberty: What Is Freedom Beyond the Earth?’.

Stephen Baxter will be an invited speaker at a seminar on ‘Extraterrestrial Liberty: What Is Freedom Beyond the Earth?’, to be hosted in London by the UK Centre for Astrobiology and the British Interplanetary Society on 13-14 June 2013.


Posted March 2013
Stephen Baxter will be speaking at a session on SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, as part of NAM 2013.

Stephen Baxter will be speaking at a session on SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, as part of NAM 2013, the Royal Astronomical Society’s annual meeting, to be held in St Andrews, Scotland, on 5-9 July 2013.



Posted August 2012
Stephen Baxter backlist available as ebooks.
In October 2012 HarperCollins UK are planning to release several of Stephen Baxter’s backlist titles as ebooks:

More recent titles published by Gollancz are already available in ebook formats.


Posted July 2012
Stephen Baxter will be a guest at the 2012 British Discworld Convention.
Stephen Baxter will be a guest at the 2012 British Discworld Convention, 24th-27th August 2012, the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, UK.


Posted January 2012
Stephen Baxter to be guest at SFX Weekender.
Stephen Baxter will be a guest at the SFX Weekender event, 2-5 February 2012, Prestatyn, North Wales.


Posted January 2012
Stephen Baxter to be guest at festival in Bagneux, France.
Stephen Baxter will be a guest at the 5th ‘Zone Franche’ festival on imaginative literature to be held in Bagneux, a suburb of Paris, 10-12 February 2012.


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Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter has signed a new two-book deal with Gollancz (UK).
The novels, to be called PROXIMA and ULTIMA and to be published in 2013 and 2014 respectively, will be hard-sf dramas set on worlds of the nearest star to the sun, and beyond.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter has been contracted to write Doctor Who novel.
Stephen Baxter has contracted to write Doctor Who: Wheel of Ice, due to appear from BBC Books in 2012. This original novel will feature the Second Doctor.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter will be Writer Guest of Honour at Norwescon 35.
Stephen Baxter will be Writer Guest of Honour at Norwescon 35 , 5th-8th April 2012, Seattle, WA.


Posted July 2011
Species of trilobite named after Xeelee.
The name ‘Xeelee’, taken from Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee novels, has been used to name a species of trilobite found in the Czech Republic (see P Budil et al, Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series v 179 (8) pp95-104, 2010). Mezzaluna xeelee looked a bit like a woodlouse, was a few millimetres long, lived around 500 million years ago, and had ‘surprisingly advanced features’ for such an early creature of its kind.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter wins the 2010 European Science Fiction Association award.
Stephen Baxter won the 2010 European Science Fiction Association Hall of Fame award, presented in August 2010.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter joins 'Project Icarus'.
Stephen Baxter has joined the ‘Project Icarus’ design team. Project Icarus , a joint initiative of the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation, is a design study of an unmanned interstellar probe.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter guest at North American Discworld Convention.
Stephen Baxter will be a guest at the North American Discworld Con , Madison Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin, 8th-11th July 2011.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter will speak at the ‘From Imagination to Reality’ Convention.
Stephen Baxter will speak at the ‘From Imagination to Reality’ convention, co-sponsored by the British Interplanetary Society, 17th-18th September 2011, Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter will attend the 100-year Starship Study
Stephen Baxter will attend the ‘100-year Starship Study’ seminar convened by DARPA and NASA, 30th September - 2nd October 2011, Orlando, FL, USA.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter will speak at Starmaker Seminar.
Stephen Baxter will speak at the seminar ‘Starmaker: The Philosophy of Olaf Stapledon’ at the London HQ of the British Interplanetary Society, Wednesday 23rd November 2011, from 9:30 am.


Posted July 2011
Stephen Baxter will be guest speaker at the British Science Fiction Association’s London.
Stephen Baxter will be guest speaker at the British Science Fiction Association’s London meeting at the Antelope Tavern, Eaton Terrace, London SW1W 8EZ , Wednesday 23rd November 2011, from 7:30 pm.


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Posted July 2010
Stephen Baxter has been commissioned to write 'The Science of Avatar'.
Stephen Baxter has been commissioned to write ‘The Science of Avatar’, a non-fiction survey, for Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Publication is due in Britain in July 2010.


Posted July 2010
Stephen Baxter is to collaborate with Terry Pratchett on a new series of hard-sf novels called 'Long Earth'.
Stephen Baxter is to collaborate with Terry Pratchett on a new series of hard-sf novels called 'Long Earth'. The first volume should be published by Transworld in 2012. The series will be based on a long-nurtured idea of Pratchett's. Baxter says, 'Short of playing soccer alongside Steven Gerrard it doesn't get much better than this.


Posted July 2010
Stephen Baxter's 'Ark' shortlisted for British Science Fiction Association Award.
Stephen Baxter’s ‘Ark’ was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel published in 2009. The award was presented at the Eastercon on 4th April 2010. The winner was China Mieville’s ‘Un Lun Dun’.


Posted July 2010
Stephen Baxter speaks at 2010 Wells conference.
Stephen Baxter will be speaking at the HG Wells Society Conference ‘HG Wells: From Kent to Cosmopolis’ to be held at the Darwin Conference Suite, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, UK, July 9 to 11 2010.


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Posted July 2009
Stephen Baxter guest at Nantes convention.
Stephen Baxter will be a guest at Utopiales: The International Science Fiction Festival held at Nantes, France, October 28-November 1 2009.


Posted April 2009
Stephen Baxter novelette nominated for Locus Award.
Stephen Baxter’s novelette ‘The Ice War’ has been nominated for the Locus Award for best short fiction. The Award will be presented at the Science Fiction Awards Weekend, Seattle, 26-27 June 2009.


Posted April 2009
Stephen Baxter’s Flood Nominated for BSFA Award.
Stephen Baxter’s Flood was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award. The Award, presented at LX2009, the 2009 Eastercon at Bradford, was won by Ken MacLeod’s Night Sessions.


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Posted September 2008
Stephen Baxter on Wells and War.
September 2008: Stephen Baxter spoke at the annual conference of the HG Wells Society at Queen Mary University, London, on ‘HG Wells: No End to War’.


Posted December 2008
Upcoming appearances by Stephen Baxter.
On February 12th 2009 Stephen Baxter will be speaking on evolution in sf at Birmingham University's 'Darwin Day', the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.

Stephen Baxter is expected to attend 'LX', the 60th Eastercon, at the Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford, 10th-13th April 2009: www.lx2009.com

On May 8th 2009 Stephen Baxter will be speaking on Mars in sf at a special meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, entitled 'Mars before the Space Age'.


Posted November 2008
New Contracts for Stephen Baxter.
Stephen Baxter has agreed two new book contracts with his UK publisher Gollancz: for 'The Northland Trilogy', a working title for a new saga of alternate prehistory; and for an omnibus of his early Xeelee books Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring and Vacuum Diagrams.


Posted November 2008
Stephen Baxter a Friend of Fanderson.
Stephen Baxter has been elected a 'Friend of Fanderson', the Gerry Anderson appreciation society, in recognition of articles on 1960s comics and other aspects of Anderson's work he has contributed to the society's magazine. www.fanderson.org.uk


Posted October 2008
Stephen Baxter at IAC.
Stephen Baxter addressed the final session of the International Astronautical Congress, a major annual convention of the space industry, in Glasgow, October 2008, on sf and spaceflight. He shared a stage with, among others, Sergei Krikalev, a cosmonaut who holds the record for most cumulative days spent in space.


Posted August 2008
Stephen Baxter misses a Hugo.
Stephen Baxter's 'Last Contact' was nominated for a 2007 Hugo award in the short story category; the winner, announced at the 'Denvention' Worldcon in Denver, Colorado, was Elizabeth Bear's fine story 'Tideline'. Stephen Baxter's The H-Bomb Girl, having been nominated for the 2007 Clarke Award, was also nominated for a Locus Award for best young adult novel of 2007 - but failed to win that too.


Posted June 2008
Stephen Baxter elected BSFA President.
At its AGM in June 2008 the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) elected Stephen Baxter its President, in succession to the late Sir Arthur C Clarke. Stephen Baxter had been serving as Vice President since 1999.


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.


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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