Science Fiction
WALKING ON GLASS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: Macmillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
THE APOLLO LEGACY.
New York: Award Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Award Books A719S. Paperback original. Thriller/SF novel. An astronaut has an affair with a journalist and the unborn child is infected with a space virus. A C.I.A. agent investigates. Hubin, p. 49.
KALEIDOSCOPE CENTURY.
New York: Tor, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing. Correct first edition which was recalled by Tor due to a large number of errors in the text. Buyers were encouraged to return their copies and exchange them for a corrected second printing.
STARING AT THE SUN.
New York: Knopf, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THROUGH DARKEST AMERICA.
New York/Chicago: Congdon & Weed, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE HEREAFTER GANG.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition.
ANTI-ICE.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's third novel.
ANTI-ICE.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's third novel. Signed by Baxter on the title page.
CHIRON.
Birmingham: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1993. Small octavao, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. One of 400 copies done for Novacon 23. Signed by Baxter. A 12 page story in chapbook format.
MOONSEED.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter.
RAFT.
[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84.
RAFT.
[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84.
RING.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. The fourth book in the "Xeelee" sequence.
RING.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. The fourth book in the "Xeelee" sequence.
THE TIME SHIPS.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's sixth novel, a sequel to the TIME MACHINE by H. G. Wells. "Baxter's finest single early work ... [It] won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1996, as well as the Philip K Dick Award, the latter given ... for the book's later publication in the U.S. in paperback ... Based explicitly and with the approval of his estate on H. G. Wells's THE TIME MACHINE (1895), this sequel ... confirms the sense that Baxter is almost certainly the premier current author of the scientific romance, and that –- like his great predecessors in the form, Wells, Olaf Stapledon and Arthur C Clarke (with whom he has collaborated) –- he tends most naturally to work out the implications of his tales through long-breathed evolutionary perspectives; that he is pessimistic about how likely it is that the human race is destined to triumph, either on this planet or abroad; that he is uncomfortable with the model of the competent man central to twentieth-century American hard SF; and that he has a sweet-tooth for the eschatological climax." - John Clute, SFE (online).
TIMELIKE INFINITY.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Baxter. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a way for humans to avoid this fate via time travel. An incredibly complex time-and-space opera, bumptious, merry, scientifically well informed, and all-round fun to read (though, as is usual with this kind of fiction, the characterization leaves something to be desired)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Neat aliens, good plot-reversals, much hand-waving with physics and a pretty damn cosmic ending. I didn't think they were writing them like this any more." - Mary Gentle, Interzone. The sequels are FLUX (1993) and RING (1994). "The sequence –- as centrally narrated here and in RING -– follows humanity into the fraught arena of interstellar space, already dominated by the complex and enigmatic Alien Xeelee, who soon prove to be highly inimical to the fragile expansionist hopes of humanity. The long epic ends darkly, aeons hence, giving with strong hints that the universe, and the Intelligences capable of comprehending it, may become coterminous. Though the incessant fertility of Baxter's imagination makes it appropriate to think of his larger-scale effects in terms of space opera, the Xeelee sequence, like most of his later fiction, is dense with thought experiments; along with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he is perhaps the most successful of all modern SF writers in marrying space opera and hard SF.
TIMELIKE INFINITY.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Baxter. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a way for humans to avoid this fate via time travel. An incredibly complex time-and-space opera, bumptious, merry, scientifically well informed, and all-round fun to read (though, as is usual with this kind of fiction, the characterization leaves something to be desired)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Neat aliens, good plot-reversals, much hand-waving with physics and a pretty damn cosmic ending. I didn't think they were writing them like this any more." - Mary Gentle, Interzone. The sequels are FLUX (1993) and RING (1994). "The sequence –- as centrally narrated here and in RING -– follows humanity into the fraught arena of interstellar space, already dominated by the complex and enigmatic Alien Xeelee, who soon prove to be highly inimical to the fragile expansionist hopes of humanity. The long epic ends darkly, aeons hence, giving with strong hints that the universe, and the Intelligences capable of comprehending it, may become coterminous. Though the incessant fertility of Baxter's imagination makes it appropriate to think of his larger-scale effects in terms of space opera, the Xeelee sequence, like most of his later fiction, is dense with thought experiments; along with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he is perhaps the most successful of all modern SF writers in marrying space opera and hard SF.
TIMELIKE INFINITY.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a way for humans to avoid this fate via time travel. An incredibly complex time-and-space opera, bumptious, merry, scientifically well informed, and all-round fun to read (though, as is usual with this kind of fiction, the characterization leaves something to be desired)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Neat aliens, good plot-reversals, much hand-waving with physics and a pretty damn cosmic ending. I didn't think they were writing them like this any more." - Mary Gentle, Interzone. The sequels are FLUX (1993) and RING (1994). "The sequence –- as centrally narrated here and in RING -– follows humanity into the fraught arena of interstellar space, already dominated by the complex and enigmatic Alien Xeelee, who soon prove to be highly inimical to the fragile expansionist hopes of humanity. The long epic ends darkly, aeons hence, giving with strong hints that the universe, and the Intelligences capable of comprehending it, may become coterminous. Though the incessant fertility of Baxter's imagination makes it appropriate to think of his larger-scale effects in terms of space opera, the Xeelee sequence, like most of his later fiction, is dense with thought experiments; along with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he is perhaps the most successful of all modern SF writers in marrying space opera and hard SF.
TITAN.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed.
TRACES.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter. Story collection.
THE WEB: GULLIVERZONE.
[London]. Orion Children's Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, [1997]. Small octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Young adult SF, part of a series written by multiple authors.
VACUUM DIAGRAMS: STORIES OF THE XEELEE SEQUENCE.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Short stories written between 1987-1995 which have been revised and placed in novel format, with a new timeline and references to the novels in the 'Xeelee Sequence' (RAFT, TIMELIKE INFINITY, FLUX and RING). Winner of the 1999 Philip K. Dick award for the U.S. publication.