Timelike Infinity - Softcover

Baxter, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000647618X ISBN 13: 9780006476184

Publisher: Harpercollins Sf&F, 1993

Synopsis

First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Earth became a vast factory for alien foodstuffs.

Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail.

Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.

Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting . . .

About this title

From the Publisher:

A NOVEL IN THE XEELEE SEQUENCE

'A major new talent' - Arthur C. Clark

'Baxter sends into freefall the most awesome ideas in science fiction today' - The Times

About the Author:

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Sf&F
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 000647618X
• ISBN 13: 9780006476184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256