VJ Books Presents Author Stephen Baxter!
Stephen Baxter (born in Liverpool, England in 1957) is a British hard science fiction author. Since 1987 he has published somewhere over forty books, mostly science fiction novels, and over a hundred short stories. He has degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University, engineering from Southampton University, and in business administration from Henley Management College. He worked as a teacher of maths and physics, and for several years in information technology. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
Baxter's first professionally published short story appeared in 1987, and his first novel in 1991. He has been a full-time author since 1995.
His science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, and France. Baxter's books have won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan) and have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards. He has published over 100 science fiction short stories, several of which have won prizes.
His novel Voyage was
dramatized by Audio Movies for BBC Radio and broadcast in 1999. His TV and movie work includes development work on the BBC's Invasion: Earth, broadcast in 1998, and the script for Episode 3 of Space Island One, broadcast on Sky One on January 21, 1998.
Baxter is President of the British Science Fiction Association, and a Vice-President of the HG Wells Society.
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Stephen Baxter Bibliography
Long Earth Series
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The Long Earth - 2012
- The Long War - 2013
- The Long Mars - 2014
- The Long Utopia - 2015
Other Science Fiction
- Proxima - 2014
- Ultima - 2015
- The Medusa Chronicles - June 2016 (sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's "A Meeting with Medusa")
- The Massacre of Mankind - August 2017 (Sequel to H.G. Wells War of the Worlds)
Xeelee Sequence
- Raft - 1991
- Timelike Infinity - 1992
- Flux - 1993
- Ring - 1993
- Vacuum Diagrams - 1997
- Reality Dust - 2000
- Riding the Rock - 2002
- Mayflower II - 2004
- Starfall - 2009
- Gravity Dreams - 2011
- Redemption - 2019
Destiny's Children
- Coalescent - 2003
- Exultant - 2004
- Transcendent - 2005
- Resplendent - 2006
NASA Triology
- Voyage - 1996
- Titan - 1997
- Moonseed - 1998
Mammoth Series
- Silverhair - 1999
- Longtusk - 2000
- Icebones - 2001
Mammoth Omnibus
A Time Odyssey (co-authored with Arthur C. Clarke)
- Time's Eye - 2003
- Sunstorm - 2005
- Firstborn - 2007
Time's Tapestry
- Emperor - 2006
- Conqueror - 2007
- Navigator - 2007
- Weaver - 2008
Flood/Ark
Northland Trilogy
- Stone Spring - 2010
- Bronze Summer - 2011
- Iron Winter - 2013
Unrelated Novels
- Anti-Ice - 1993
- The Time Ships - 1995
- The Light of Other Days - 2000
- Evolution - 2003
- The H-Bomb Girl - 2007
- Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice - 2012
Unrelated Collections
- Traces - 1998
- The Hunters of Pangaea - 2004
Short Fiction
- Formidable Caress - 2009
- Return to Titan - 2010
Non-Fiction
- Deep Future - 2001
- Omegatropic - 2001
- Revolutions in the Earth Ages of Chaos - 2004
- The Science of Avatar - 2011
Stephen Baxter Awards
- Philip K Dick Award
- Seiun Award (Japan)
- Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany)
- John W Campbell Memorial Award
- British Science Fiction Association Award
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