Stephen Baxter
1) Ark
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
532 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet a light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey--and the competition for survival can kill human compassion.
2) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
490 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs....
4) Iron winter
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland's prosperity survived wars and unrest--and brought the whole of Europe together. But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland,...
5) Emperor
Author
Series
Time's tapestry volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
302 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised...