The Time Ships

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The highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wellss The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke.
Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wellss classic story THE TIME MACHINE, Stephen Baxters stunning sequel is an outstanding work of imaginative fiction.

The Time Traveller has abandoned his charming and helpless Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced to flee. He promptly embarks on a second journey to the year AD 802,701, pledged to rescue Weena. He never arrives. The future was changed by his presence and will be changed again. Hurling towards infinity, the Traveller must resolve the paradoxes building around him in a dazzling temporal journey of discovery. He must achieve the impossible if Weena is to be saved.

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WINNER OF THE BSFA, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AND PHILIP K. DICK AWARDS

Im almost tempted to say (I know this is blasphemy) that the sequel is better than the original
Arthur C. Clark

Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded in doing it, but very few others. Now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks. The reaction is that which C. S. Lewis referred to when he described science fiction as the only genuine consciousness-expanding drug.
NEW SCIENTIST

Stephen Baxter really does stand on the shoulders of giants in order to see further than they did THE TIME SHIPS is a brilliant piece of work. It is a sequel in the best possible sense
INTERZONE

The most important living science-fiction writer in the country
THE TIMES

The best SF writer in Britain
SFX

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.