Weaver - Stephen Baxter

Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter's collection of short stories set in the Xeelee Sequence; they make up the spine of his history of the future. Find a copy and look at the praise heaped upon it, and look at who has heaped it upon. Sort of gets you right there, doesn't it? To be honest, this is one of the books not that reviewers- and fellow authors- judge but that they are judged by the comments they pass upon. In this postmodern age he is the closest we come to a reborn Arthur C. Clarke- and if you thought he wasn't already dead yet, look at the quality of some of the stuff he's produced in the late eighties and nineties. Anyway. Baxter is a physicist, and although the ...

Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter's collection of short stories set in the Xeelee Sequence; they make up the spine of his history of the future. Find a copy and look at the praise heaped upon it, and look at who has heaped it upon. Sort of gets you right there, doesn't it? To be honest, this is one of the books not that reviewers- and fellow authors- judge but that they are judged by the comments they pass upon. In this postmodern age he is the closest we come to a reborn Arthur C. Clarke- and if you thought he wasn't already dead yet, look at the quality of some of the stuff he's produced in the late eighties and nineties. Anyway. Baxter is a physicist, and although the ...

Time - Stephen Baxter

I read the odd SCI-FI from the library and this is probably the best for a long time that I felt I could comprehend and was believable. Some of the fantasy book stuff looks plain daft. Its 2009 .Reid Malefant is an aging Astronaght working outside of NASA on his own project to convert old shuttle booster rockets and main fuel tanks into deep space mineral storage facilities. Money is tight and he’s reliant on old space buddies to keep the business adventure going. A man in a sharp suit arrives with a far more startling prophecy for space jock Reid and his friends to mull over. And if he doesn’t take up the challenge that Cornielius Harris has put to him the whole future ...

Time - Stephen Baxter

I read the odd SCI-FI from the library and this is probably the best for a long time that I felt I could comprehend and was believable. Some of the fantasy book stuff looks plain daft. Its 2009 .Reid Malefant is an aging Astronaght working outside of NASA on his own project to convert old shuttle booster rockets and main fuel tanks into deep space mineral storage facilities. Money is tight and he’s reliant on old space buddies to keep the business adventure going. A man in a sharp suit arrives with a far more startling prophecy for space jock Reid and his friends to mull over. And if he doesn’t take up the challenge that Cornielius Harris has put to him the whole future ...

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 ...