2025. Tied in to Baxter's masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered.
Reid Malenfant is the commander of a NASA earth-orbiting science platform. The platform is intended to probe the planets of the nearest star system by bouncing laser pulses off them. But no echoes are returned … and Reid's reality begins to crumble around him. Huddling with his family, awaiting the end - or an unknown new beginning - Reid tells stories of other possibilities, other realities.
The linked stories encompass the myriad possibilities that might govern our relationship with the universe: are we truly alone, or will we eventually meet other lifeforms? The final possibility - that the Universe as we know it is in fact an elaborate illusion designed to protect us from the fearful reality - is brilliantly explored in the tour de force novella that ends the volume.
| ISBN: | 9780008134501 |
| Publication date: | 22nd October 2015 |
| Author: | Stephen Baxter |
| Publisher: | Harper Voyager an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 426 pages |
| Series: | The Manifold Trilogy |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Science fiction: near future Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic Science fiction: aliens / UFOs Science fiction: space exploration Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages Speculative fiction |
2025. Tied in to Baxter's masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered.
Reid Malenfant is the commander of a NASA earth-orbiting science platform. The platform is intended to probe the planets of the nearest star system by bouncing laser pulses off them. But no echoes are returned … and Reid's reality begins to crumble around him. Huddling with his family, awaiting the end - or an unknown new beginning - Reid tells stories of other possibilities, other realities.
The linked stories encompass the myriad possibilities that might govern our relationship with the universe: are we truly alone, or will we eventually meet other lifeforms? The final possibility - that the Universe as we know it is in fact an elaborate illusion designed to protect us from the fearful reality - is brilliantly explored in the tour de force novella that ends the volume.
Phase Space features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Science fiction: near future, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: space exploration, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Speculative fiction
Phase Space is available in Paperback
Phase Space was written by Stephen Baxter and published by Harper Voyager an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Phase Space has 426 pages
Yes it is part of The Manifold Trilogy series