Stephen Baxter's second collection of short fiction is Traces (1998), and he has also published the non-fiction books Deep Future (2001), Omegatropic (2001) and Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World (2003), a study of the geologist James Hutton. Clarke, including The Light of Other Days (2000), Time's Eye (2004) and Firstborn (2007). He has also co-authored books with Arthur C. He is also the author of two further series, the Mammoth series and the Xeelee sequence, the latter comprising his first novel, Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Flux (1993) and Ring (1994), and a collection of short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997). His books include the Manifold sequence: Time (1999), Space (2000) and Origin (2001), and a collection of short stories, Phase Space (2002). He has written many science fiction novels and short stories, including the award-winning Time Ships (1995), the authorised sequel to HG Wells's The Time Machine. He became a teacher of mathematics and physics, and worked in information technology for some years, before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool in 1957 and studied maths at Cambridge University and engineering at Southampton University.
For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter.
Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting… The second novel in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence.įirst there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality.
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