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Time by Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction Paperback Book
Time by Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction Paperback Book
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Time – Stephen Baxter’s vast and unsettling opening to the Manifold trilogy, a hard science fiction novel shaped by long-term consequence and cosmic scale, presented in this paperback edition.
A serious, idea-led book that keeps its feet on the ground even as it looks out into immensities most fiction avoids.
Earth’s problems are no longer abstract. Environmental damage, political drift, and an atmosphere of managed decline have made the future feel smaller, more defensive. Reid Malenfant refuses that shrinking vision. He is blunt, difficult, and driven by a conviction that humanity must push outward — not for adventure, but to remain viable.
Baxter places Malenfant’s ambition against systems that move slowly and resist change: governments, institutions, public fear, the inertia of ordinary life. Yet beyond all of that is the harder truth the novel keeps returning to — that time itself is not generous, and the universe is not arranged for human comfort.
Time is rigorous without being cold. It threads big scientific speculation through very human stubbornness and impatience, and it is at its most striking when it lets scale do the unsettling work — years, generations, whole futures implied rather than neatly explained.
A demanding, clear-eyed beginning to a trilogy that thinks in decades and consequences, not quick consolations.
📘 Format: Paperback
♻️ Condition: New
✍️ Author: Stephen Baxter
📄 Number of pages: 464
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