![]() ![]() Right up to the satisfyingly vertiginous climax. his format and style are assured and keep you happily suspended and engrossed. the other reason Space works well is that Baxter is a good writer. ![]() ![]() Baxter apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard sf all by himself' Locus on Space 'Like all good sf, Space provokes questions. 'Baxter is taking basic sf ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics - a tried and true method sor sf writers but no less effective for that. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The linked stories encompass the myriad possibilities that might govern our relationship with the universe: are we truly alone, or will we eventually meet other lifeforms? The final possibility - that the Universe as we know it is in fact an elaborate illusion designed to protect us from the fearful reality - is brilliantly explored in the tour de force novella that ends the volume. Huddling with his family, awaiting the end - or an unknown new beginning - Reid tells stories of other possibilities, other realities. and Reid's reality begins to crumble around him. The platform is intended to probe the planets of the nearest star system by bouncing laser pulses off them. ![]() Reid Malenfant is the commander of a NASA earth-orbiting science platform. Tied in to Baxter's masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered. ![]()
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