Full Details
Traces
| Author: | Stephen Baxter |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollins/Voyager, 1998 |
| Series: | |
|
This book does not appear to be part of a series. If this is incorrect, and you know the name of the series to which it belongs, please let us know. |
|
| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | |
| Awards: | |
| Lists: | |
| Links: |
|
| Avg Member Rating: |
|
|
|
|
Synopsis
Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind.
There are vision of histories which differ from our own, either through small changes--what if Germany had won WWI ('Mittelwelt')--or through a fundamental difference in physical laws--what if Archimedes had been right in his clockwork-like cosmological vision ('No Longer Touch the Earth').
There are visions of futures in which people struggle to survive in a variety of bizarre environments ('Downstream', 'The Blood of Angels'), or, weakened and powerless, inhabit the end of worlds ('Inherit the Earth', 'George and the Comet').
There are explorations of astonishing events of our own lifetimes, in particular the grand expansion into space ('Zemlya', 'Moon Six', 'Pilgrim 7').
These visions give an impression of the contingency of our everyday here-and-now, surrounded as it is by an infinite array of possible pasts, presents, and futures.
Table of Contents:
- Traces - (1991) - shortstory
- Darkness - (1995) - shortstory
- The Droplet - (1989) - shortstory
- No Longer Touch the Earth - (1993) - shortstory
- Mittelwelt - (1994) - shortstory
- Journey to the King Planet - (1990) - novelette
- The Jonah Man - (1989) - shortstory
- Downstream - (1993) - shortstory
- The Blood of Angels - (1994) - shortstory
- Columbiad - (1996) - shortstory
- Brigantia's Angels - (1995) - shortstory
- Weep for the Moon - (1992) - shortstory
- Good News - (1994) - shortstory
- Something for Nothing - (1988) - shortstory
- In the Manner of Trees - (1992) - shortstory
- Pilgrim 7 - (1993) - shortstory
- Zemlya - (1997) - shortstory
- Moon Six - (1997) - novelette
- George and the Comet - (1991) - shortstory
- Inherit the Earth - (1992) - shortstory
- In the MSOB - (1996) - shortstory
- Afterword - (1998) - essay by Stephen Baxter
Excerpt
No excerpt currently exists for this novel.
Reviews
There are currently no reviews for this novel. Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above.
Images
No alternate cover images currently exist for this novel.
