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2015: Astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth’s orbit.



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‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’
THE TIMES

‘The best SF writer in Britain’
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‘Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined, TIME places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov’
THE TIMES

‘Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence’
THE GUARDIAN

‘Baxter is taking basic SF ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics … [He] apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard SF all by himself’
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‘It’s time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein’
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A Paperback / softback by Stephen Baxter

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    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Publication Date: 22/10/2015
    ISBN13: 9780008134495, 978-0008134495
    ISBN10: 0008134499

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    2015: Astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth’s orbit.



    Trade Review

    ‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’
    THE TIMES

    ‘The best SF writer in Britain’
    SFX

    Praise for The Manifold Trilogy:

    ‘Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined, TIME places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov’
    THE TIMES

    ‘Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence’
    THE GUARDIAN

    ‘Baxter is taking basic SF ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics … [He] apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard SF all by himself’
    LOCUS

    ‘It’s time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein’
    EDGE

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