Origin by Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction Paperback Book

Origin – Stephen Baxter’s stark and unsettling conclusion to the Manifold trilogy, a novel that turns from expansion and exploration toward ancestry, consequence, and cosmic reckoning, presented in this paperback edition.

A work of hard science fiction that pares ambition back to first causes, and finds them stranger than expected.

In Origin, Baxter shifts the weight of the trilogy. The outward rush of discovery gives way to something more inward and disquieting, as human curiosity collides with forces that predate civilisation itself. What has been sought across space now presses back, intimate and inescapable.

The novel moves between Earth and far wider arenas with an austere calm, attentive to deep time and biological inheritance rather than heroics. Humanity appears less as a conquering presence than as a transient expression of much older processes, shaped by pressures it barely understands.

Baxter’s tone here is cool, rigorous, and deliberately unsettling. Origin is less concerned with triumph than with exposure — of limits, of origins, and of the uncomfortable possibility that intelligence is neither central nor permanent in the universe.

A sombre, idea-led conclusion that closes the trilogy by stripping it back to fundamentals.

📘 Format: Paperback
♻️ Condition: New
✍️ Author: Stephen Baxter
📄 Number of pages: 464

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