Stephen Baxter bibliography

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This is the complete bibliography of British science fiction author Stephen Baxter.

Contents

Xeelee Sequence

TitleYearISBNNotes
Raft 1991 ISBN   0-246-13706-1 Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel, 1992 [1]
Timelike Infinity 1992 ISBN   0-00-224016-5  
Flux 1993 ISBN   0-00-224025-4  
Ring 1994 ISBN   0-00-224026-2  
Vacuum Diagrams 1997 ISBN   0-00-225425-5 Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1999 [2]

Short story collection.

Reality Dust 2000 ISBN   1-902880-10-2

ISBN   1-902880-11-0

Novella (first published by PS Publishing as trade paperback and hardcover; both limited; later collected in Resplendent )
Riding the Rock 2002 ISBN   1-902880-60-9

ISBN   1-902880-59-5

Novella (first published by PS Publishing as trade paperback and hardcover; both limited; later collected in Resplendent )
Mayflower II 2004 ISBN   1-904619-16-9

ISBN   1-904619-17-7

Novella (first published by PS Publishing as trade paperback and hardcover; both limited; later collected in Resplendent )
Starfall 2009 ISBN   978-1-906301-59-0

ISBN   978-1-906301-60-6

Novella (first published by PS Publishing as hardcover and jacketed hardcover; both limited; later collected in Xeelee: Endurance )
Gravity Dreams 2011 ISBN   978-1-848631-89-2

ISBN   978-1-848631-90-8 (signed edition)

Novella (first published by PS Publishing as hardcover and signed hardcover; both limited; later collected in Xeelee: Endurance )
Xeelee: Endurance 2015 ISBN   978-1-473212-70-1 Collection of short stories and novellas.
Xeelee: Vengeance 2017 ISBN   978-1-473217-19-5
Xeelee: Redemption 2018 ISBN   978-1-473217-21-8

Destiny's Children

The Destiny's Children series is part of the Xeelee Sequence.

TitleYearISBNNotes
Coalescent 2003 ISBN   0-345-45786-2 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 2004 [3]
Exultant 2004 ISBN   0-345-45788-9  
Transcendent 2005 ISBN   0-345-45792-7 John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 2006 [4]
Resplendent 2006 ISBN   0-575-07896-0 Collection of short stories and novellas.

NASA Trilogy

TitleYearISBNNotes
Voyage [5] 1996 ISBN   0-00-648037-3 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1997 [6]
Titan 1997 ISBN   0-06-105713-4 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1998 [7]
Moonseed 1998 ISBN   0-06-105903-X  

The Web Series

Baxter contributed two books to this series for young adults. See The Web (series)

Manifold Trilogy

TitleYearISBNNotes
Manifold: Time 1999 ISBN   0-345-43076-X Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 2000 [8]
Manifold: Space 2000 ISBN   0-345-43077-8  
Manifold: Origin 2001 ISBN   0-345-43079-4  
Phase Space 2002 ISBN   0-00-651185-6 Short story collection.

Mammoth Trilogy

TitleYearISBNNotes
Silverhair 1999 ISBN   0-06-105132-2 Young adult
Longtusk 1999 ISBN   0-380-81898-1 Young adult
Icebones 2001 ISBN   0-380-81899-X Young adult
Behemoth2004 ISBN   0-575-07604-6 Omnibus edition of the Mammoth Trilogy

A Time Odyssey (co-authored with Arthur C. Clarke)

TitleYearISBNNotes
Time's Eye 2003 ISBN   0-345-45248-8  
Sunstorm 2005 ISBN   0-345-45250-X  
Firstborn 2007 ISBN   978-0-345-49157-2  

Time's Tapestry

TitleYearISBNNotes
Emperor 2006 ISBN   0-575-07432-9  
Conqueror 2007 ISBN   0-575-07673-9  
Navigator 2007 ISBN   978-0-441-01559-7  
Weaver 2008 ISBN   978-0-575-08204-5  

Flood/Ark

TitleYearISBNNotes
Flood 2008 ISBN   978-0-575-08058-4 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, 2008 [9]
Ark 2009 ISBN   978-0-575-08057-7  
Landfall 2015 ISBN   978-1-938-26318-7  

Northland Trilogy

TitleYearISBNNotes
Stone Spring 2010 ISBN   978-0-575-08919-8  
Bronze Summer 2011 ISBN   978-0-575-08923-5  
Iron Winter 2012 ISBN   978-0-575-08928-0  

The Long Earth (co-authored with Terry Pratchett)

TitleYearISBNNotes
The Long Earth 2012 ISBN   978-0-857-52009-8 Co-authored with Terry Pratchett.
The Long War 2013 ISBN   978-0-06-206777-7 Co-authored with Terry Pratchett.
The Long Mars 2014 ISBN   978-0-857-52175-0 Co-authored with Terry Pratchett
The Long Utopia 2015 ISBN   978-0062297334 Co-authored with Terry Pratchett
The Long Cosmos 2016 ISBN   978-0062297372 Co-authored with Terry Pratchett

Proxima

TitleYearISBNNotes
Proxima2013 ISBN   978-0575116849 Science Fiction
Ultima2014 ISBN   978-0575116870 Science Fiction

World Engines

TitleYearISBNNotes
World Engines: Destroyer 2019 ISBN   978-1473223172 In the near future Earth has recovered from the climate crisis. But in the far future an inexorable threat approaches, itself a relic of the deep past, and of the World Engines that created the planets.
World Engines: Creator 2020 ISBN   978-1473223226 Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point.

Standalone novels

TitleYearISBNNotes
Anti-Ice1993 ISBN   0-06-105421-6 Alternate history
The Time Ships 1995 ISBN   0-06-105648-0 BSFA Award winner, 1995; [10] John W. Campbell Award winner, 1996; [11] Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1996; [11] Hugo, Locus, Clarke, and British Fantasy Awards nominee, 1996 [11]

Alternate history. An authorised sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine .

The Light of Other Days [12] [13] 2000 ISBN   0-312-87199-6 Co-authored with Arthur C. Clarke.
Evolution 2002 ISBN   0-345-45783-8  
The H-Bomb Girl 2007 ISBN   0-571-23279-5 Young adult
Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice 2012 ISBN   978-1-445-89803-2 Doctor Who novel
The Medusa Chronicles 2016 ISBN   1481479679 Co-authored with Alastair Reynolds; sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa .
The Massacre of Mankind 2017 ISBN   978-1473205093 An authorised sequel to H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds .
Galaxias 2021 ISBN   978-1-473-22885-6 "What would you do if the Sun went out? In this standalone novel, a near-future Earth faces a devastating cosmic intervention."
The Thousand Earths 2022 ISBN   978-1-473-22890-0 "An exploration of deep time, two stories intertwined spanning five billion years."
Creation Node 2023 ISBN 9781473228955

Unrelated collections

TitleYearISBNNotes
Traces 1998 ISBN   0-00-649814-0 Short story collection.
The Hunters of Pangaea 2004 ISBN   1-886778-49-3 18 stories and five essays on science and science fiction.
Obelisk2016 ISBN   978-1-473-21274-9 Collection of 17 stories, four of which are set in the Proxima/Ultima universe.

Short fiction

TitleYearFirst published inReprinted in
"The Saddle Point Sequence"1996 Science Fiction Age (Jul 1996)
"Last Contact"2007The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
"Formidable Caress"2009 Analog 129/12 (Dec 2009)The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year : Volume Four, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books, 2010)
"Return to Titan"2010Godlike Machines, Jonathan Strahan, ed. [14] The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed., (St. Martin's Griffin, NY, 2011)
"The Invasion of Venus"2010 Engineering Infinity , edited by Jonathan Strahan [15] [16] [17]
"Going Up the Blue"2019Scarlet Traces: An Anthology Based on War of the Worlds

Non-fiction

TitleYearISBNNotes
Deep Future 2001 ISBN   0575071958 Science based examination of possible human futures.
Omegatropic 2001 ISBN   0-9540788-1-0 Mainly science fiction criticism.
Revolutions in the Earth 2003 (UK) ISBN   0-297-82975-0 James Hutton and the True Age of the World [18]
Ages in Chaos 2004 (United States) ISBN   0-7653-1238-7 James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep time
The Science of Avatar [19] 2011 ISBN   0-297-86343-6 Examines the concepts used in the 2009 film Avatar .

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    "Return to Titan" includes characters from the Poole family of the Xeelee series.
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  19. ↑ Baxter, Stephen (2010), The Science of Avatar, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, ISBN   978-0-297-86343-4
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