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Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this selection of uncollected and unpublished stories, newly edited and placed in chronological reading order.

From tales charting the earliest days of man's adventure to the stars to stories of Old Earth, four billion years in the future, the range and startling imagination of Baxter is always on display. As humanity rises and falls, ebbs and flows, one thing is always needed – the ability to endure.

Contains eleven short stories and novellas.

Are you this didn’t almost happen?

The authorised sequel to WAR OF THE WORLDS, written by one of the world’s greatest SF authors.

It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.

So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells’ book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.

He is right.

Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist – sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins – must survive, escape and report on the war.

The Massacre of Mankind has begun.

Stephen Baxter’s , a Tor.com Original

In the aftermath of the First Martian War, in the interim between it and what was to come later, England seemed to once again become a green and peaceful place, if one haunted by the terrible events in Surrey that had happened in those early years of the century. Although people hoped and prayed peace had come, they were wrong. Across the gulf of space, plans were being drawn for a return, but before they could bear fruit a terrible discovery was made deep in Holmburgh Wood, one that would tear a family apart and shock the world.

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Wenn die Kugeln von Dallas John F. Kennedy verfehlt hätten, stünde die amerikanische Flagge heute nicht nur auf dem Mond, sondern auch auf dem Mars.

Eine atemberaubende Vorstellung - doch der Aufbruch zum Roten Planeten steckt voller Gefahren und Rückschläge...

Ein neues aufregendes SF-Abenteuer des gefeierten Autors von »Zeitschiffe« und »Das floß«

Titel der englischen Originalausgabe "Voyage"

RESPLENDENT is a collection of stories that encompasses mankind's epic fight for survival against the Xeelee, a narrative of how man will change and evolve over our epic journey out into the universe. These tales will encompass the rise of sub-molecular empires in the first nanoseconds after the Big Bang to mankind's final transformation. Full of cutting-edge science, descriptions of time and space on a mind-boggling scale and memorable, all-too-human characters. It is both the capstone to one of the most significant series in the history of SF and a remarkable achievement in its own right. This is a mature and uniquely talented writer at the height of his powers.

Eine neue Reise durch die Zeit führt den Helden aus H. G. Wells’ »Die Zeitmaschine« in Vergangenheiten und Zukünfte, die sich als alternative Zeitströme entpuppen, die er womöglich sehr erzeugt. Der Versuch, das temporale Durcheinander zu ordnen, führt ihn zum Urknall zurück und enthüllt ihm die Geheimnisse des Multiversums… Die »offizielle Fortsetzung« des SF-Klassiker ist eine sehr lange, recht zähe und wenig originelle Hetzjagd durch die Äonen, die erst in ihrem Finale einen »sense of wonder« gewinnt und ein wenig für die aufgewendete Lesezeit entschädigt.

La machine à explorer le temps

Par une chance extraordinaire, la narration de ce second voyage est parvenue à Stephen Baxter, un siècle exactement après la parution, en 1895, de .

En voici la fidèle et surprenante transcription.

Il n’est pas nécessaire pour le goûter d’avoir lu le récit du premier voyage.

Reparti dans un lointain avenir, le Voyageur surpris découvre un monde différent de celui qu’il avait exploré, où les Morlocks disposent d’une civilisation technologique avancée et ne ressemblent plus aux barbares qu’il a connus.

Flanqué du Morlock Nebogipfel, il s’aventurera sur les Vaisseaux du temps jusqu’aux confins du temps et de l’espace, des univers parallèles et des possibles.

Sans jamais perdre l’espoir de retrouver la délicieuse Weena.

Les vaisseaux du temps

C’est sans doute l’un des plus grands textes de science-fiction de la décennie. Il a obtenu le British Science-Fiction Award 1996, le John Campbell Memorial Award 1996 et le Philip K. Dick Award 1997, et il a figuré parmi les cinq finalistes du prix Hugo en 1996.

Stephen Baxter is one of preeminent science fiction writers of the current age. This collection showcases his work at its best.

Last and First Contacts

Akcja powieści toczy się na planecie zamieszkanej przez maleńkie istoty, których biologia całkowicie różni się od ludzkiej. Jednak ich uczucia, marzenia i lęki są takie same jak każdej istoty ludzkiej. Pewnego dnia stają oni do walki z — w ich wyobrażeniu — bogami, tzw. Xeelee. Tylko od ich wytrwałości i hartu ducha zależy, czy przetrwają nasilające się ataki na ich słońce.

DAS BUCH

Die Erde in naher Zukunft: Eine gigantische Flutwelle hat weite Teile der Welt überschwemmt, um das verbleibende Festland werden erbitterte Kriege geführt, und der Meeresspiegel steigt immer weiter an. Um das Fortbestehen der Menschheit zu sichern, entwickeln amerikanische Wissenschaftler einen scheinbar genialen Plan: Eine kleine Gruppe Auserwählter soll sich in einem eigens dafür konstruierten Raumschiff – der »Arche« – auf den Weg machen, um in den Weiten des Universums einen neuen Planeten zu besiedeln. Der Start gelingt, und die neue Heimat rückt immer näher. Doch an ihrem Zielplaneten angekommen, müssen die Auswanderer feststellen, dass die »Erde II« für Menschen unbewohnbar ist. Und so steht die Besatzung der Arche vor einer existenziellen Entscheidung: Kehren sie auf die zerstörte Erde zurück oder setzen sie ihre Reise ins Ungewisse fort?

Nach seinem Erfolgsroman führt Stephen Baxter in auf meisterhafte Weise die Geschichte einer Menschheit fort, die von ihrem eigenen Planeten vertrieben wird.

DER AUTOR

Stephen Baxter, 1957 in Liverpool geboren, studierte Mathematik und Astronomie, bevor er sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Er zählt zu den international bedeutendsten Autoren wissenschaftlich orientierter Literatur. Etliche seiner Romane wurden mehrfach preisgekrönt und zu internationalen Bestsellern. Baxter lebt und arbeitet im englischen Buckinghamshire.

Weitere Informationen zu Autor und Werk erhalten Sie unter:

www.stephen-baxter.com

Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron’s visionary , with its glimpse of the Na’vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a scientific rationale for much of what we saw on the screen, from the possibility of travel to other worlds, to the life forms seen on screen and the ecological and cybernetic concepts that underpin the ‘neural networks’ in which the Na’vi and their sacred trees are joined, as well as to the mind-linking to the avatars themselves.

From popular science journalist and acclaimed science fiction author Stephen Baxter, THE SCIENCE OF AVATAR is a guide to the rigorous fact behind the fiction. It will enhance the readers’ enjoyment of the movie experience by drawing them further into its imagined world.

Powieść napisana została z pozycji pojmowania kosmosu przez człowieka końca dwudziestego wieku i zdobyczy współczesnej nauki; jest nowoczesną reinterpretacją wizji Wellsa. Podróżnik w czasie u Baxtera zmierza ku nieskończoności. Jego zadanie jest daleko ważniejsze niz tylko uratowanie Weeny: prócz tajemnicy przyszłości musi także rozwiązać paradoksy otaczającego go świata.

Autoryzowana kontynuacja Herberta George’a Wellsa.

El Viajero del tiempo de H.G. Wells despierta en su casa de Richmond la mañana posterior al retorno de su primera partida al futuro. Apesadumbrado por haber dejado a Weena en manos de los Morlock, decide realizar un segundo viaje al año 802.701 para rescatar a su amiga Eloi. Pero al entrar en un futuro distinto y radicalmente cambiado, el Viajero se ve irremediablemente atado a las paradójicas complejidades del desplazamiento a través del tiempo. Acompañado por un Morlock, se encontrará consigo mismo, para ser detenido después por un grupo de viajeros temporales procedentes de un 1938 en el cual Inglaterra lleva 24 años en guerra con Alemania... Una novela sorprendente, repleta de aventuras y especulaciones que ha pretendido, con éxito, homenajear y reexaminar La máquina del tiempo de H.G. Wells.

Transported to the Sky Steppe of Mars in the final, satisfying book in British author Baxter’s highly original Mammoth trilogy (), his engaging wooly characters face an abandoned and potentially lethal terraforming experiment left there by humans (aka “the Lost”). Matriarch mammoth Silverhair’s daughter, Icebones, awakens from an unnatural slumber to find herself in a land and time far from her native Pleistocene earth. The mammoths here have no knowledge of their ancient culture, such as the teachings of their mighty progenitor, Kilukpuk. Mammoth tradition says the Sky Steppe is “the Island in the sky where... mammoths would one day find a world of their own, free from the predations and cruelty of the Lost, a world of calm and plenty” yet whatever promise Mars once held is fading now as the changes made by human engineers are reversed under the assault of the red planet’s uncompromising weather and geology. Icebones’s companions, used to depending on the Lost for everything, can’t possibly survive alone. Their only hope is to cross half the world to reach the Footfall of Kilukpuk, a rich valley full of all the sweet grass and water the mammoths need. The journey is long and treacherous, but as the beasts’ great Cycle says, “The mammoth dies, but mammoths live on.” Baxter fills the tale with taut adventure and splendid settings, making it easy to suspend disbelief.

En 1870, cuando el poder del Imperio británico es absoluto, en las remotas tierras de una península antártica al sur del continente australiano se descubre un nueva material: el antihielo. Por el fenómeno que Faraday denominará de «conductancia aumentada», el material libera prodigiosas cantidades de energía cuando su temperatura se eleva. Su potencial energético, casi infinito, va a acelerar la Revolución Industrial de forma insospechada.

El antihielo, como no podía ser de otra manera, es empleado en la campaña de Crimea, pero también se revela útil en otras aventuras del espíritu humano que, a priori, parecen menos. sangrientas. En la Nueva Gran Exposición de Manchester de 1870, un joven agregado del Foreing Office descubrirá el inmenso poder del antihielo y, junto al visionario sir Josiah Traveller, tendrá que enfrentarse a un inesperado y decimonónico viaje espacial a la Luna.

Stephen Baxter, la nueva y gran estrella de la ciencia ficción británica, es considerado el sucesor de Arthur C. Clarke y un igual de Isaac Asimov y Robert A. Heinlein. Sus homenajes a Herbert G. Wells () y a Julio Verne () son un verdadero tour de force de la mejor ciencia ficción.

Five hundred years after a handful of human starship travelers got lost in a hostile universe, their descendants are still struggling for survival. As hard as life is on The Raft — a platform remnant of the ship's hull — it's even harder in The Belt — a string of shacks circling the iron-rich core of a dead star. Every Belter has heard the story of the legendary starship but most of them don't believe it. But Rees, a lowly mine-rat, does. He wonders why the sky is angry red instead of the blue his parents remembered. Why food from The Raft gets less and less nutritious. Why fewer and fewer stars form every day. In his quest to find answers, Rees travels from boyhood to manhood, from the outermost edges of his world into its mysterious heart. And along the way he discovers there's more at stake than his simple curiosity: life in his enigmatic universe is about to become impossible…

Hugo Best Short Story nominee (2002).

S. Baxter z talentem dorównującym najznakomitszym przebłyskom geniuszu J. Verne’a opisuje świat, w którym wielkie mosty spinają Kontynent z Wielką Brytanią, błyszczące jednotorowe koleje przewożą błyskawicznie pasażerów na olbrzymie odległości, a przerażony świat wstrzymuje oddech w przededniu wojny prowadzonej za pomocą substancji o niebywałych właściwościach — antylodu. Autor przechodzi od odległej przyszłości, opisywanej w poprzednich dziełach, do niedawnej przeszłości, nie tracąc nic ze swej pomysłowości i błyskotliwości. Umiejętnie portretuje świat dyplomatycznych zabiegów, romantycznej miłości i gorącej publicznej debaty nad konsekwencjami ludzkiego panowania nad siłami natury.

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Nomitated for Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2001.

Meticulously researched, simply told and appropriate for readers of all ages, this second volume (after 1999’s ) in Baxter’s trilogy brings to compelling life the complex culture of these giant creatures. It’s sixteen thousand years B.C., and woolly mammoths roam the earth, inhabiting the steppes of Beringia, the land bridge linking Asia and North America. Climactic changes have caused the steppes to recede, but humans, whom the mammoths call Fireheads, pose the greatest threat to their survival. Longtusk, whose coming-of-age story this is, must save the mammoths by spearheading an epic journey. Separated from his family, Longtusk is enslaved by the Fireheads, who make him a beast of burden. But a Dreamer (Neanderthal) woman foretells his future: Longtusk will die, along with the Dreamer who once saved his life and that of the Firehead matriarch, Crocus. Although Longtusk escapes his captors and finds a steppe that will support a small mammoth herd, years later Crocus and her people return, seeking to drive the mammoths away from their habitat. Longtusk embarks on a final heroic mission to save the mammoths and meet his fate. The book’s themes of ecological disaster, warfare and change resonate deeply with today’s concerns. When a mastodont tells Longtusk, "You and I must take the world as it is. [The Fireheads] imagined how it might be different. Whether it’s better is beside the point; to the Fireheads, change is all that matters," it’s clear that humans have not changed at all.