Book description
In the millennium's last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a
short step byond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived … so far.
Cornelius Taine of Eschatology, Inc., mathematical genius, predicts
that in just 200 years our species will be wiped out. Even evacuation
from Earth will not save us from extinction.
Reid Malenfant, entrepreneur, has Big Dumb Boosters ready to fly from
the California desert, to be piloted by an enhanced squid named Sheena
5. When Taine offers Malenfant the ultimate dream of saving the species,
Sheena's mission is diverted to investigate Earth's recently discovered
- and very remote - second moon.
What Sheena 5 discovers there is nothing less than a revelation: the
secret reason for our existence visible at last beneath the rippled
surface of Time's river. Malenfant and Taine must follow Sheena… but
they are pursued by an enraged US Air and Space Force, and a mighty
battle in space may cut short their hopes for the ultimate
transformation of mankind. 'Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined,
Time places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac
Asimov. How reassuring to know that while so many authors are lying in
the gutter of the information superhighway, someone at least is still
looking at the stars'
The Times
'Time is a big ambitious book… science fiction at its best'
FHM
'In Time Baxter manages to take the most esoteric cosmological ideas
and mesh them into a fast-paced novel… Probably the most
thought-provoking writing you'll read this year, it's time for Baxter to
take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein'
Edge 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 Buckinghamshire.
