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Stephen Baxter

Narrated by

Kevin Kenerly

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The NASA Trilogy

Signs of life have been found on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.A group of visionaries led by NASA’s Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a ‘slingshot’ transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a constant struggle to keep the ship and crew functioning.But it is on the icy surface of Titan itself that the true adventure begins. In the orange methane slush, the astronauts ...

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Stephen Baxter

Narrated by

Kevin Kenerly

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The NASA Trilogy

It started the night Geena and Henry broke up. What was that strange light in the sky? A new star? A comet? Neither. It was the death of Venus.As if to commemorate the end of NASA’s golden couple, our neighbor planet exploded into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering the Earth with radiation and bizarre particles as big as bacteria—a ten-dimensional superstring nanovirus that literally eats rock, transforming it into liquid, and then into molecule-size b...

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Stephen Baxter

Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this collection of stories, available in ebook for the first time!Baxter's future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels - Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring - and these marvellous linked stories, as well as those in the new collection XEELEE: ENDURANCE.Contains 21 short stories, all set in the XEELE...

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Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

Narrated by

John Lee

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The Time Odyssey Series

The Firstborn—the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey—have inhabited legendary science fiction master Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing for decades. With Time’s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in the acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant coauthor, Stephen Baxter, imagined a near future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of h...

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Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

Narrated by

John Lee

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The Time Odyssey Series

Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth’s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?Bisesa’s questions receive a chilling answer whe...

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Stephen Baxter

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World Engines

Greggson Deirdra can't remember how her life ended. But she knows that once she tried to save the Earth. And now she has been brought back . . .In Greggson Deirdra's time, humanity understood that the formation of the Solar System had been shaped by mysterious beings known as the World Engineers. They also knew that one day Earth would again face another planet-shaping collision in the future. Determined to avert the catastrophe, Deirdra had assembled a small crew ...

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Stephen Baxter

Narrated by

Kyle McCarley

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Proxima

On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences.As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light: We all have countless pasts converging in this present—and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old, and now we are vulnerable t...

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Stephen Baxter

Narrated by

Kevin Kenerly

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The NASA Trilogy

The space mission of a lifetimeAn epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket, and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgetta...

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Stephen Baxter

In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning.In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close.Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up ab...

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Stephen Baxter

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The Xeelee Sequence

The Philip K. Dick Award-winning saga of humankind's next five million years: "Mind-stretching science fiction at its boldest." — Orlando SentinelAnd everywhere the Humans went, they found life . . .This dazzling future history, the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga, tells the story of Humankind—all the way to the end of the Universe itself. Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, ...

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Stephen Baxter

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A Proxima Novel

“Stephen Baxter has been heralded, with some merit, as Arthur C. Clarke’s literary heir, and Proxima certainly reinforces this accolade in spades.”—ConcatenationMankind’s future in this galaxy could be all but infinite.There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years—and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of hum...

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Stephen Baxter

“Magisterial and uplifting . . . A brilliant, grandscale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course.” —The Denver PostStretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgett...