Stephen Baxter
1) Moonseed
Author
Series
NASA trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
It started the night Geena and Henry broke up. What was that strange light in the sky? A new star? A comet? Neither. It was the death of Venus. As if to commemorate the end of NASA's golden couple, our neighbor planet exploded into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering the Earth with radiation and bizarre particles as big as bacteria - wiping out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, frying the ozone layer, forcing survivors to...
3) Ultima
Author
Series
Proxima novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Hailed as 'one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced' (SF Site), Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas.... On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered--hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences.... As humanity discovers the real nature...
4) Proxima
Author
Series
Proxima novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite.... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs....
Author
Series
Manifold trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Astronaut Reid Malenfant examines an alien red moon in the hopes of finding his wife, who with others has been pulled into an unknown dimension of the universe
7) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Description
Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
8) Exultant
Author
Series
Destiny's children volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 28
Description
In a continuing study of human evolution, a journey to the far future depicts a world in which a far-flung human race has perfected war as a way of life as they confront the deadly threat of an implacable alien foe.
10) Coalescent
Author
Series
Destiny's children volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 30
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Aboard the Wheel, a ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become enmeshed in a critical situation. Suspected of sabatoge, they soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could kill them all.
12) Ark
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Holle Groundwater is chosen to leave the soon-to-be submerged Earth on an escape ship, but realizes her way out may be more dangerous than trying to remain on a drowning planet.
13) Stone spring
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Ten thousand years ago, a vast, fertile plain linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho- a town that is protected by a wall. And she starts...
14) Manifold space
Author
Series
Manifold trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
Description
In the sequel to Manifold Time, space explorer Reid Malenfant continues his odyssey through the universe, while Earth is faced with the dual threat of alien invasion and overwhelming ecological devastation.
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland's prosperity survived wars and unrest--and brought the whole of Europe together. But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland,...
16) Bronze summer
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Description
The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability to the Eastern civilizations.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
This story follows the passing of a prophecy across generations of a British and Roman family, whose members variously interpret its cryptic promise of freedom vis--̉vis the fate of both Britannia and later Christianity. The Latin prophecy, referring to three Roman emperors, is born in 4 B.C., along with the boy who becomes the British chieftain Nectovelin. Half a century later, Nectovelin's cousin Agrippina uses the prophecy to pique the curiosity...
18) Galaxias
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way. But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze Earth begins to fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh. Someone has sent a sign"--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Three centuries have passed since Rome fell, as The Prophecy foretold. Now The Prophecy's scroll is in the hands of a young girl, the last surviving member of the family who received The Prophecy. She lives in tranquility, disguisd as a boy among the monks on the isle of Lindisfarne-until the Vikings come, deliberately destroying the final copies of the scroll. But it remains in her memory, and when William of Normandy, who history will call the Conqueror,...
20) Time's eye
Author
Series
Time odyssey volume 1
Description
Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today's science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability...