{"product_id":"origin-paperback","title":"Origin by Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction Paperback Book","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOrigin – 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.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA work of hard science fiction that pares ambition back to first causes, and finds them stranger than expected.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003eOrigin\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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. 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