Book description
A stunning new companion series to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY from the
world's most important living SF writer and his acknowledged heir. 1885,
the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre
encounter between the British army and what appears to be an impossibly
advanced piece of Russian technology. And then to a terrifying
intervention by a helicopter from 2037. Before the full impact of this
extraordinary event has even begun to sink in, Kipling, his friends and
the helicopter crew stumble across Alexander the Great's army. Mankind's
time odyssey has begun. It is a journey that will see Alexander avoid
his premature death and carve out an Empire that expands from Carthage
to China, beating the time-slipped army of Ghenghis Khan in a battle
outside the ruins of Babylon in the process. And it will present mankind
with two devastating truths. Aliens are amongst us and have been
manipulating our past and our future. And that future extends only as
far as 2037, for that is the date Earth will be destroyed. This is SF
that spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on time
travel and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre's masters at
their groundbreaking best. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer
of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major
awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees
from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his
wife. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation.
Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US,
Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and
Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife. Arthur C. Clarke
was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a
radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant.
After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his
Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours. One of the most
respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the
Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing
Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the
screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The
Sentinel'. He died in early 2008.
