Timelike Infinity - Stephen Baxter

The Light of Other Days - Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

I picked this book up purely by chance, read the summary and decided I would give it ago. Having tried to read Arthur C Clarkes Titanic, I thought I was in for yet another heavy and deep sci-fi. But I was pleasantly surprised and enthralled by the plot, and his excellent writing style. The author manages to take complicated scientific theories, and turn tem into comprehensive explanations that fit in well with the flow of the book as a whole. The story begins along way in the future, when a new technology is developed which enables light to be transmitted through worm holes at a sub-atomic level (the physics behind this is as interesting as the fiction, in theory this sort of thing ...

The Light of Other Days - Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

I picked this book up purely by chance, read the summary and decided I would give it ago. Having tried to read Arthur C Clarkes Titanic, I thought I was in for yet another heavy and deep sci-fi. But I was pleasantly surprised and enthralled by the plot, and his excellent writing style. The author manages to take complicated scientific theories, and turn tem into comprehensive explanations that fit in well with the flow of the book as a whole. The story begins along way in the future, when a new technology is developed which enables light to be transmitted through worm holes at a sub-atomic level (the physics behind this is as interesting as the fiction, in theory this sort of thing ...

Space - Stephen Baxter

Star Wars, most species tend to have a common point of interest; some basis for way of life that allows contact and interaction in a meaningful way. Stephen Baxter's first lot of aliens are so entirely different from us that it takes a great deal of time to get them to even notice humans, let alone interact with them. Reid Malenfant is party to the discovery of aliens in our solar system, along with the original discoverer of said aliens, Nemoto. To cut a very long and interesting story short, Malenfant makes contact with the aliens and goes off on a relativistic and millennia-long journey with them, wandering around the universe. They are not like us. They ...

Space - Stephen Baxter

Star Wars, most species tend to have a common point of interest; some basis for way of life that allows contact and interaction in a meaningful way. Stephen Baxter's first lot of aliens are so entirely different from us that it takes a great deal of time to get them to even notice humans, let alone interact with them. Reid Malenfant is party to the discovery of aliens in our solar system, along with the original discoverer of said aliens, Nemoto. To cut a very long and interesting story short, Malenfant makes contact with the aliens and goes off on a relativistic and millennia-long journey with them, wandering around the universe. They are not like us. They ...

Space - Stephen Baxter

Space is a tenuous sequel to Stephen Baxter’s enjoyable Time and for those who didn’t read the first one, you can quickly pick up the flow. The main eek with the book early on is that it rushes through thirty years in the first 100 pages. The next 400 Baxter hits you with his intellect and hypothetical understanding and detailed of the worlds best sci-fi theorist, but he presses on at a cracking pace leaving you wondering why he didn’t go into detail more, as he does it so well. After that its heavy going astro physics time where only the purist can hang on in. Ried Malofant is five years on from his last interstellar adventure and is glowing from ...

Space - Stephen Baxter

Space is a tenuous sequel to Stephen Baxter’s enjoyable Time and for those who didn’t read the first one, you can quickly pick up the flow. The main eek with the book early on is that it rushes through thirty years in the first 100 pages. The next 400 Baxter hits you with his intellect and hypothetical understanding and detailed of the worlds best sci-fi theorist, but he presses on at a cracking pace leaving you wondering why he didn’t go into detail more, as he does it so well. After that its heavy going astro physics time where only the purist can hang on in. Ried Malofant is five years on from his last interstellar adventure and is glowing from ...