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'If they existed, they would be here' ENRICO FERMI. In the second volume in Stephen Baxter's epic Manifold Series Reid Malenfant inhabits the universe Malenfant kick-started in TIME ('science fiction at its best' FHM) -- and 'they' are here. When Nemoto, a Japanese researcher on the Moon, discovers evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence in the solar system, the Fermi Paradox provokes both Malenfant and Nemoto to question why now? Because, suddenly, there are signs of intelligent life in deep space in all directions. Deeper layers of Fermi's paradox unravel as robot-like aliens, the Gaijin, seem to be e-mailing themselves from star to star, and wherever telescopes point, far away, other alien races are destroying worlds!
| ISBN | 000651183X | | Pages | 464 | | ISBN13 | 9780006511830
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 238 | | Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Voyager | | Series title | Dandelions | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 178 | | Publication date | 06 Aug 2001 | | Width (mm) | 111 | | Illustrator | Shipperbottom, John | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Interest age | From 6 To 10 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Reading age | From 6 To 8 |
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'Baxter is taking basic sf ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics -- a tried and true method sor sf writers but no less effective for that. Baxter apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard sf all by himself' Locus on SPACE 'Like all good sf, SPACE provokes questions. What kind of species are we?! the other reason SPACE works well is that Baxter is a good writer! his format and style are assured and keep you happily suspended and engrossed. Right up to the satisfyingly vertiginous climax! Malenfant is one of sf's more memorable characters' SFX on SPACE  Be the first to write a customer review
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