Time (The Manifold Trilogy, Book 1)

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2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation.
As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space.

Now Reid gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they

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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

Its time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein
EDGE

Author Bio

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didnt 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.