Manifold: Time posits that humanity is the only intelligent species in the universe.Notable in that all three novels feature the same cast but are set in Alternate Continuities. Three what-if novels concerning the Fermi Paradox, with each presenting a different resolution to the paradox. Moonseed - A prolonged lunar exploration programme in the 70s accidentally brings a mysterious, nanoplague-like substance to Earth during a return mission.Titan - A 20 Minutes into the Future (when it was written, that is) book about an expedition to Titan.Voyage - Alternate spaceflight developments between the 1960s and 1980s, culminating in a ( not easily earned) manned mission to Mars in the mid 1980s.Features several modern-day and near future what-ifs. The NASA Trilogy, a loose trilogy of three thematically similar Alternate History novels that center on spaceflight and space exploration, particularly that of NASA origin.Set in the far future, where humans struggle for supremacy in the universe against the god-like Xeelee. He's most known for his far-future space opera series The Xeelee Sequence, but he also writes a fair amount of Alternate History and more near-future fiction. Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is a British author known for his hard sci-fi novels. It's about change and present-day concerns." "Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future.
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