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Stephen Baxter


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in Liverpool, Lancashire, The United Kingdom
November 13, 1957

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Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is currently working on his next novel, a collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.

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The Time Ships

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Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)

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Ring (Xeelee Sequence, #4)

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Ultima

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“We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.”
Stephen Baxter, Ark

“When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.”
Stephen Baxter, Vacuum Diagrams

“In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.”
Stephen Baxter, Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice

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