Resplendent
Destiny's Children Book 4
Gollancz
2006
Transcendent
Destiny's Children Book 3
Gollancz
September 2005
Exultant
Destiny's Children Book 2
Gollancz
September 2004
Coalescent
Destiny's Children Book 1
Gollancz
October 2003
Weaver
Time's Tapestry Book 4
Gollancz
February 2008
Navigator
Time's Tapestry Book 3
Gollancz
July 2007
Conqueror
Time's Tapestry Book 2
Gollancz
February 2007
Emperor
Time's Tapestry Book 1
Gollancz
July 2006
Stone Spring
Gollancz
June 2010
Bronze Summer
Due:
mid-2011
Firstborn
A Time Odyssey Book 3
(with Arthur C Clarke)
Del Rey (US)
March 2008
Sunstorm
A Time Odyssey Book 2
(with Arthur C Clarke)
Del Rey (US)
March 2005
Times Eye
A Time Odyssey Book 1
(with Arthur C Clarke)
Del Rey (US)
Feb 2004
Phase Space
Manifold Book 4
HarperCollins (UK)
August 2002
Origin
Manifold Book 3
HarperCollins (UK)
August 2001
Space
Manifold Book 2
HarperCollins (UK)
August 2000
Time
Manifold Book 1
HarperCollins (UK)
August 1999
Behemoth
Mammoth - Omnibus
Gollancz
November 2004
Icebones
Mammoth Book 3
Gollancz
March 2001
Longtusk
Mammoth Book 2
Gollancz
January 2000
Silverhair
Mammoth Book 1
Gollancz
January 1999
Moonseed
NASA Trilogy Book 3
HarperCollins
August 1998 (UK).
Titan
NASA Trilogy Book 2
HarperCollins
August 1997 (UK).
Voyage
NASA Trilogy Book 1
HarperCollins
November 1996 (UK).
A Xeelee Omnibus
A Xeelee Sequence Book
Due:
January 2010
Vacuum Diagrams
The Xeelee Sequence Book 5
HarperCollins
April 1997
Ring
The Xeelee Sequence Book 4
HarperCollins
July 1994
Flux
The Xeelee Sequence Book 3
HarperCollins
December 1993
Timelike Infinity
The Xeelee Sequence Book 2
HarperCollins
December 1992
Raft
The Xeelee Sequence Book 1
HarperCollins
July 1991
Webcrash
The Web Book 2
Orion Books
October 1998
Gulliver Zone
The Web Book 1
Orion Books
October 1997
The H Bomb Girl
Faber & Faber
2007
The Hunters of Pangaea
NESFA Press (US)
February 2004
Evolution
Gollancz
November 2002
The Light of Other Days
(with Arthur C Clarke)
HarperCollins (UK)
2000
Traces
HarperCollins (UK)
April 1998
The Time Ships
HarperCollins (UK)
May 1995
Anti-Ice
HarperCollins
January 1993
Revolutions in the Earth
Non-Fiction
James Hutton and the True Age of the World
Weidenfield and Nicolson
June 2003
Omegatropic
Non-Fiction
British Science Fiction Association
June 2001
Deep Future
Non-Fiction
Gollancz
January 2001
Posted December 2008
Upcoming appearances by Stephen Baxter.
On February 12th 2009 Stephen Baxter will be speaking on evolution in sf at Birmingham University's 'Darwin Day', the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
Stephen Baxter is expected to attend 'LX', the 60th Eastercon, at the Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford, 10th-13th April 2009: www.lx2009.com
On May 8th 2009 Stephen Baxter will be speaking on Mars in sf at a special meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, entitled 'Mars before the Space Age'.
Posted November 2008
New Contracts for Stephen Baxter.
Stephen Baxter has agreed two new book contracts with his UK publisher Gollancz: for 'The Northland Trilogy', a working title for a new saga of alternate prehistory; and for an omnibus of his early Xeelee books
Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring and
Vacuum Diagrams.
Posted November 2008
Stephen Baxter a Friend of Fanderson.
Stephen Baxter has been elected a 'Friend of Fanderson', the Gerry Anderson appreciation society, in recognition of articles on 1960s comics and other aspects of Anderson's work he has contributed to the society's magazine.
www.fanderson.org.uk
Posted October 2008
Stephen Baxter at IAC.
Stephen Baxter addressed the final session of the International Astronautical Congress, a major annual convention of the space industry, in Glasgow, October 2008, on sf and spaceflight. He shared a stage with, among others, Sergei Krikalev, a cosmonaut who holds the record for most cumulative days spent in space.
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Posted August 2008
Stephen Baxter misses a Hugo.
Stephen Baxter's 'Last Contact' was nominated for a 2007 Hugo award in the short story category; the winner, announced at the 'Denvention' Worldcon in Denver, Colorado, was Elizabeth Bear's fine story 'Tideline'. Stephen Baxter's
The H-Bomb Girl, having been nominated for the 2007 Clarke Award, was also nominated for a Locus Award for best young adult novel of 2007 - but failed to win that too.
Posted June 2008
Stephen Baxter elected BSFA President.
At its AGM in June 2008 the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) elected Stephen Baxter its President, in succession to the late Sir Arthur C Clarke. Stephen Baxter had been serving as Vice President since 1999.
Posted March 2008
Death of Sir Arthur C Clarke.
The death of Sir Arthur Clarke was announced on 18th March 2008. There is a tribute by Stephen Baxter in the
'Articles' section of this website.
Posted March 2008
Baxter to appear in Liverpool in September.
Stephen Baxter is to speak on Monday September 8th at the British Association's Festival of Science, which this year is to be held in Baxter's home town of Liverpool to celebrate its year as European City of Culture. Details are to be confirmed.
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Posted March 2008
Baxter Nominated for Hugo Award.
Stephen Baxter's short story 'Last Contact' has been nominated for the Hugo Award for best sf short story of 2007.
The award will be presented at this year's Worldcon,
Denvention 3 in Denver, Colorado (6-10 August), which Baxter hopes to attend.
'Last Contact' was first published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. George Mann, BL Publishing, 2007,
and reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 25th Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St Martin's Press, 2008.
The story "Last Contact" is available online at solarisbooks
Posted March 2008
Baxter Nominated for Clarke Award.
Stephen Baxter's young adult novel The H-Bomb Girl (Faber) has been nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award for the best sf novel published in Britain in 2007.
The award will be presented on 30th April at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. See
www.clarkeaward.com
Posted March 2008
Baxter joints SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup.
Following his attendance in February 2008 at a meeting in Arizona of the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) Permanent Study Group, Stephen Baxter has been appointed to the Post-Detection Taskgroup, which is responsible for policies concerning science protocols, news handling and other issues were a signal from an alien civilisation to be detected. Baxter is to attend the PSG's next meeting in Paris, September 2008.
Posted August 2007
Baxter in SETI workshop.
Stephen Baxter has been invited to participate in a workshop on the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the Arizona State University's Beyond Institute in February 2008. The idea is to rethink search strategies after fifty years of radio silence from the sky.
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Posted August 2007
Evolution new edition.
Gollancz have issued a new edition of Stephen Baxter's Evolution (2002) in their 'Future Classics' series of eight titles. The cover image, rendered in black felt on a glossy black background, has to be stroked to be believed...
Posted August 2007
Stephen Baxter appointed advisor of Focus Magazine.
The BBC's Focus magazine has run a number of features by Stephen Baxter, including an ongoing 'What if?' column on alternate histories. Now Baxter has joined the magazine's panel of advisors, along with such figures as Heather Couper, Sir Arthur C Clarke, and Lord Robert Winston. See
www.bbcfocusmagazine.com
Posted August 2007
Baxter story in best of 30 years of Asimov's.
Stephen Baxter's story 'The Children of Time' has been reprinted in Asimov's SF Magazine 30th Anniversary Anthology, (ed. Sheila Williams, Tachyon Books, 2007), a selection of the editors' pick of the best stories published during the magazine's 30-year run. Baxter's first publication in Asimov's was 'Planck Zero' (1992). 'The Children of Time' won the Asimov's Reader's Poll Award for the magazine's best short story of 2005.
Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter to give H.G.Wells Lecture
Stephen Baxter, a Vice President of the HG Wells Society, is to give a public lecture as part of the Society’s conference to be held at Imperial College, London, on Friday 28th September 2007.
The theme of the conference is ‘Wells and philosophy’, and Baxter’s talk will be titled: ‘The War of the Worlds: A Controlling Metaphor for the 20th Century’.
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Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter to Guest at Eurocon
Stephen Baxter is to be a Guest of Honour at Eurocon 2007, the 29th European Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Denmark, 21-23 September 2007.
Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter contributes to Mars study.
Since 2004 Stephen Baxter has been working with a group
from the British Interplanetary Society on a design study for a manned base at the Martian north pole.
Baxter is a Fellow of the BIS. The study, led by astrobiologist Charles Cockell, has now been
published under the title 'Project Boreas', and Cockell will present the conclusions at a seminar
in London in March 2007
www.bis-spaceflight.com
Baxter says, 'This study follows a fine tradition dating back to the earliest days of the BIS,
when a group including Arthur C Clarke worked on an ahead-of-its-time study of a lunar mission.'
Posted February 2007
Stephen Baxter Signs New Contract
Stephen Baxter has sold the worldwide rights in two new novels to Gollancz Publishers via his agent PFD. Baxter says that
‘Flood’ (to be published in autumn 2008) and
‘Ark’(autumn 2009) will be ‘stories of a global convulsion and its aftermath’. Gollancz’s UK editions will be the world first.
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