Phase Space (The Manifold Trilogy)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Phase Space (The Manifold Trilogy)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stephen Baxter
SeriesThe Manifold Trilogy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:432
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780008134501
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint HarperVoyager
Publication Date 22 October 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

2025. Tied in to Baxter's masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered. Reid Malenfant is the commander of a NASA earth-orbiting science platform. The platform is intended to probe the planets of the nearest star system by bouncing laser pulses off them. But no echoes are returned ... and Reid's reality begins to crumble around him. Huddling with his family, awaiting the end - or an unknown new beginning - Reid tells stories of other possibilities, other realities. The linked stories encompass the myriad possibilities that might govern our relationship with the universe: are we truly alone, or will we eventually meet other lifeforms? The final possibility - that the Universe as we know it is in fact an elaborate illusion designed to protect us from the fearful reality - is brilliantly explored in the tour de force novella that ends the volume.

Author Biography

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Northumberland.

Reviews

'The most important living science-fiction writer in the country' THE TIMES 'The best SF writer in Britain' SFX Praise for The Manifold Trilogy: 'Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined, TIME places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov' THE TIMES 'Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence' THE GUARDIAN 'Baxter is taking basic SF ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics ... [He] apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard SF all by himself' LOCUS 'It's time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein' EDGE