Summary
Traces: A Kaleidoscope of Possible Futures
Stories set in a variety of futures from an award-winning author, Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind.
There are visions of histories which differ from our own, either through small changes – what if Germany had won WWI (‘Mittelwelt’) – or through a fundamental difference in physical laws – what if Archimedes had been right in his clockwork-like cosmological vision (‘No Longer Touch the Ea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008134563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008134561 |
| Author: | Stephen Baxter |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperVoyager |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 19 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’THE TIMES
‘The best SF writer in Britain’SFX
Praise for Stephen Baxter’s short fiction:
‘The stories are the purest distillation of hard SF. They add up to an essential collection’INTERZONE
‘A luminous collection … Baxter can overwhelm you with a traditional SF “sense of wonder” until your jaw drops’SFX
‘Baxter sends into free-fall the most awesome ideas in science fiction today … [He] reveals the mortal host in the machine.’THE TIMES
About The Author
Stephen Baxter
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 Northumberland.
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