Stephen Baxter

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Destiny's Children

1 - Coalescent (Dec-2003)
2 - Exultant (Nov-2004)
3 - Transcendent (Nov-2005)

Mammoths

1 - Silverhair (Oct-1999)
2 - Longtusk (Jun-2001)
3 - Icebones (Jun-2002)

Manifold

1 - Manifold: Time (Dec-2000)
2 - Manifold: Space (Jan-2001)
3 - Manifold: Origin (Feb-2002)

NASA

1 - Voyage (Jan-1997)
2 - Titan (Nov-1997)
3 - Moonseed (Oct-1998)

The Northland Trilogy

1 - Stone Spring (Nov-2011)
2 - Bronze Summer (Nov-2012)
3 - Iron Winter (Nov-2013)

Related Books

1 - Flood (Jun-2008)
2 - Ark (Aug-2009)

Time's Tapestry

1 - Emperor (Jan-2007)
2 - Conqueror (Jul-2007)
3 - Navigator (Jul-2007)
4 - Weaver (Feb-2008)

The Web

1 - GulliverZone (Dec-1997)
2 - Webcrash (Dec-1998)

Xeelee Sequence

1 - Coalescent (Dec-2003)
2 - Transcendent (Nov-2005)
3 - Timelike Infinity (May-1993)
4 - Ring (1994)
5 - Vacuum Diagrams (1997)
7 - Exultant (Nov-2004)
8 - Raft (Jan-1992)
9 - Flux (Dec-1993)

Multi-Author Series List

Doctor Who

The Wheel of Ice (Jan-2013)

The Web

1 - GulliverZone (Dec-1997)
7 - Webcrash (Dec-1998)

Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • Raft

    Xeelee Sequence - 8

    THE SURVIVAL OF HUMANKIND Imagine a universe whose force of gravity is one billion times stronger than today's. Human beings have detectable gravity fields. Stars are only a mile across and burn out within a year of their formation. Centuries b...

  • Timelike Infinity

    Xeelee Sequence - 3

    WAR BETWEEN THE AGES Once mankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Now it is oppressed by the Qax--until the loose end of a time tunnel, long since set adrift, whips back through the solar system. In one desperate leap, a band of rebel...

  • Flux

    Xeelee Sequence - 9

    Imagine a race of submicroscopic humans, genetically engineered to live in the universe's most hostile environment, the turbulent superfluid mantle of a neutron star Imagine that the memory of the superbeings who created them has been kept alive f...

  • Ring

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    Xeelee Sequence - 4

    Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen ag...

  • The Time Ships

    THERE IS A SECRET PASSAGE TROUGH TIME ...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live. A century after the publication of H. G. Wells' immor...

  • Voyage

    NASA - 1

    In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey -- “a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America mi...

  • Vacuum Diagrams

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    Xeelee Sequence - 5

    "And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ... " This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind--all the way to...

  • The Web: GulliverZone

  • Anti-Ice

    Discovering a new element, Anti-Ice, a mysterious substance that unleashes vast energies when warmed, a millionaire industrialist dreams of power from an item that promises world peace--or world destruction. Original....



  • Titan

    NASA - 2

    HUMANKIND'S GREATEST -- AND ALST -- ADVENTURE! Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. A group of visionaries led by NASA's Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. ...

  • GulliverZone

    The Web - 1
    The Web - 1

    Welcome to the infinite worlds of The Web
    February 7, 2027, is World Peace Day. All over the world, celebrations are in full swing. There's even free access to the Web today--a chance to sample the infinite worlds and endless possibilities of v...

  • Moonseed

    NASA - 3

    IT EATS PLANETS. AND IT'S HERE. It starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Day...

  • Webcrash

    The Web - 2
    The Web - 7

    2028. Aliens arrive - the first of a brand new series of adventures in the Web. 1 year after her adventure in GULLIVERZONE, Metaphor is still as excited by the web as anyone else her age. But even she isn't ready for the chaos and excitement that com...

  • Silverhair

    Mammoths - 1

    From Stephen Baxter, one of today's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy, comes this unforgettable saga of life and loss in the grand tradition of Watership Down.

    For fifty thousand springs, Silverhair and ...

  • Web 2028

    The Web is the internet of the future; a vast network of virtual reality sites that have become the playground for the children of the world and the stage for mankind’s first contact. A contact that will be made with our children....

  • Manifold: Time

    Manifold - 1

    “Reading Manifold: Time is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don’t feel both exhausted and exhilirated when you’re done, you haven’t been working hard enough.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewThe year is 2010. M...

  • Manifold: Space

    Manifold - 2

    The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: a gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, a...

  • Longtusk

    Mammoths - 2

    Even as a young calf, Longtusk understood the hardships the few remaining of his ancient kind had encountered when the glaciers retreated and grassy forests stole over the vast tundra the herds called home. Worst of all was when the F...

  • Manifold: Origin

    Manifold - 3

    “One of the best SF writers in the business . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe.” -- Science Fiction Chronicle In ...



  • Icebones

    Mammoths - 3

    3000 A.D. Years ago, humans colonized Mars, bringing with them specimens of long-extinct Earth life for regeneration on this new frontier. But humankind has disappeared, and the animals have been left behind to fend for themselves. Icebones, daughter...

  • Conurbation

    in Live Without a Net
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    Imagine a future without cyberspace... without the Web or virtual reality.... What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. Today's top masters of specula...

  • Evolution

    Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettab...

  • Coalescent

    Destiny's Children - 1
    Xeelee Sequence - 1

    When his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called the Order. The Order is a hive--a human hive with a dominant queen--that has prospered b...

  • The Hunters of Pangaea

  • Ages in Chaos

    "This book, then, is the story of how a farmer's son from Scotland learned to peer into the deepest abysses of time. It is a drama of personality, landscape and ideas, of an intellectual revolution that shaped our world--and of a man whose vision, ro...

  • Exultant

    Destiny's Children - 2
    Xeelee Sequence - 7

    For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. Faced with certain death, a young pilot, Pirius, disobeys orders and travels into the future. Upon his return, Pirius is court-martialed and sentenced to pena...

  • Transcendent

    Destiny's Children - 3
    Xeelee Sequence - 2

    It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is still in the throes of grief. His beloved wife, Morag, died seventeen years ago, along with their second child. Yet Michael is haunted by more than just the memory of Morag. On a beach in Mia...

  • James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time

    In the eighteenth century, the received wisdom, based on biblical calculations, was that the Earth was just six thousand years old. James Hutton, a gentleman with a passion for rocks, knew that could not be the case. Looking at the irregular strata o...

  • Emperor

    Time's Tapestry - 1

    It is the Prophecy. Inscribed in Latin, the ancient scroll has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world, that is to come and guiding them to wealth and power. It begins when a Celtic noble betrays his...



  • Conqueror

    Time's Tapestry - 2

    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...

  • Navigator

    Time's Tapestry - 3

    The third novel in Stephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry series.“We’ve come to expect excellence from Stephen Baxter and that’s what we get it in Navigator.” -- SciFiDimensionsAs William the Conqueror’s men attempt to stamp out the flames of reb...

  • Resplendent

  • Weaver

    Time's Tapestry - 4

    It is a war that has been fought throughout the centuries. The fate of Rome, the fate of Christendom, the fate of the young country called America -- all were at stake down through the ages. Now, in the early days of World War II, as Germany launches...

  • The H-bomb Girl

    Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post-war city: a music that electrifies, a music that promises to change everything. But in Cuba, on the other side of the earth, ...

  • Flood

    Related Books - 1

    Now the bestselling author puts both of those attributes to work in a novel as frightening as it is plausible.... Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive together, they ma...

  • Tempest 43

    in We Think Therefore We Are

    STEPHEN BAXTER * BRIAN STABLEFORD * ERIC BROWN JAMES LOVEGROVE * ADAM ROBERTS * TONY BALLANTYNE STEVEN UTLEY * MADLY YOUMANS * ROBERT REED PAUL DI FILIPPO * PATRICK O'LEARY * GARRY KILWORTH KEITH BROOKE * IAN WATSON * CHRIS ROBERSON Scientists...

  • The Unblinking Eye

    in Other Earths

    ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * JEFF VANDERMEER STEPHEN BAXTER * THEODORA GOSS LIZ WILLIAMS * GENE WOLFE GREG VAN EEKHOUT * ALASTAIR REYNOLDS PAUL PARK * LUCIUS SHEPARD BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Alternate history explores the many possible directions our wo...

  • Ark

    Related Books - 2

    It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle...

  • Stone Spring

    The Northland Trilogy - 1

    Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain exists linking 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 ...



  • Origin

    Stephen Baxter’s Manifold novels have struck the world of science fiction like a meteor. Heralded by Arthur Clark as “a major new talent,” Baxter stands time and space on their collective heads, envisions the future reflected in the past, and t...

  • Phase Space

  • Time

    From Book 1: 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 h...

  • Traces

  • Bronze Summer

    The Northland Trilogy - 2

    Stephen Baxter’s “imaginative [and] bold” novel Stone Spring drew readers into an alternate prehistoric scenario that now continues with Bronze Summer. Thousands of years have passed. And a wall that was built to hold back the sea, must now hol...

  • Space

    The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, a...

  • The Wheel of Ice

    Doctor Who

    Resilience. Remembrance. Restoration. Whatever the cost. Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police box that’s not a police box. The TARDIS has carried the Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Zoe, to all sorts of places, but ...

  • Iron Winter

    The Northland Trilogy - 3

    Stephen Baxter brings his epic Northland trilogy to a close as a once-thriving civilization faces winter without end.... Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholar...

  • Proxima

    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 cou...

  • Landfall

    Stephen Baxter's bestselling novels, Flood and Ark (ROC, 2009 and 2010) introduced a universe in which a handful of refugees in a primitive starship flee a drowning Earth. In the duology we see the refugees reach colony worlds they call Earth II and ...



  • Newton's Aliens

    Stephen Baxter’s bestselling novel, Anti-Ice, is a drama of a different nineteenth century. First published in 1993 as an alternate history, it was quickly embraced by the emerging steampunk genre. Now with Newton’s Aliens, he has created one pie...

  • The Paradox Conspiracy

    Bestselling science fiction author Stephen Baxter was inspired to write the Jones & Bennet stories, set when he was growing up in the 1960s, by real events. The Paradox Conspiracy contains two novellas, “Project Hades” and “Project Herakles, pr...

  • Ultima

    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 ...

  • Endurance

    Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this selection of uncollected and unpublished stories, newly edited and placed in chronological reading order.From tales charting the earlie...

  • Vengeance

    Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warri...

  • Obelisk

    A remarkable collection of short fiction from one of our greatest SF authors, including two brand new short stories. This collection contains stories set in the universe of the bestselling duology PROXIMA and ULTIMA, which expand on the characters ...

  • The Martian in the Wood

    Stephen Baxter's The Martian in the Wood, a Tor.com OriginalIn the aftermath of the First Martian War, in the interim between it and what was to come later, England seemed to once again become a green and peaceful place, if one haunted by the terr...

  • The Massacre of Mankind

    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 bu...

  • Redemption

    Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape . . . This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times...

  • Destroyer

    In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . .In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-c...

  • Scarlet Traces

    It is the dawn of the twentieth century.  Following the Martians' failed invasion of Earth, the British Empire has seized their technology and unlocked its secrets for themselves. It is a Golden Age of discovery, adventure, culture, invention --...

  • World Engines: Creator

    Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point. All are from parall...

  • Creator

    A hard-SF cli-fi saga set against the background of the birth of the solar system. Filled to the brim with big ideas and breathtaking worldbuildingIn the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . .In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a f...

  • Galaxias

    What would happen to the world if the sun went out?New epic sci-fi from Stephen Baxter, the award-winning author whose credits include co-authorship of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett.By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed...

  • The Thousand Earths

    In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning.In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close.Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to ...

  • Creation Node

  • Fortress Sol

    When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to eke out his life until he was worn out, all in the name of maintaning the defense of the Solar Sytem....

Award-Winning Books by Stephen Baxter

The Time Ships
1996 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
1997 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel
Vacuum Diagrams
2000 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel


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Stephen Baxter has published 66 books.

The next book by Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Stephen Baxter, Raft, was published in January 1992.

Yes. Stephen Baxter has 9 series.
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