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Manifold: Time (Manifold)

by Stephen Baxter, Chris Schluep (Editor)

3.68 · rating details · 1,274 ratings · 111 reviews

The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the explo...more

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Jan 14, 2011

Ian rated it

I am a fan of Stephen Baxter's. Vacuum Diagrams and The Time Ships were two of my favorite sci-fi books in the last ten years (at least among the Sci Fi I have read.) And I was looking forward to diving into a meaty trilogy of his that I could be reading for awhile. However whereas those two novel's took some fascinating contemporary science and built interesting conflicts and narratives on top of them, this book drowns beneath them.

Too often the action gets bogged down in a scene wh...moreI am a fan of Stephen Baxter's. Vacuum Diagrams and The Time Ships were two of my favorite sci-fi books in the last ten years (at least among the Sci Fi I have read.) And I was looking forward to diving into a meaty trilogy of his that I could be reading for awhile. However whereas those two novel's took some fascinating contemporary science and built interesting conflicts and narratives on top of them, this book drowns beneath them.

Too often the action gets bogged down in a scene where one scientist or mathematician is standing in a room with one of the protagonists (who were neither scientists nor mathematician)explaining some scientific principle or another which Baxter feels is imperative to the story. And just as the protagonists, through one cliche or another, express their confusion ("In English" - "X...tried to act like they understood." - "Malenfant tried to contain his frustrating confusion.") over and over and over again, so too was I squinting at the page and struggling to distill the important principles. Invariably the scientist or mathematician would sigh in patronizing frustration at the protagonist/me and simplify things...which they could have just done to begin with.

This happens over and over again to the point where I just got bored and ended up getting bogged down in this one for quite awhile. It's a pity because this past weekend I finally made a concerted effort to finish it and, where the first 250 pages were like a pushup drill, the last 150 were a lot of fun and I flew through them. In typical Baxter style, the story was elevated from interesting straightforward premises to questions about the very nature of the universe and what could be our place in it's present, beginning, and ultimate end. Even in the midst of the climax there was STILL that convention of the smart characters stopping to explain what was happening to the dullards in the story, but at that point the action had reached a level that I didn't care.

Even though I found this one excruciating at points I'm surprisingly still interested in the sequels, if only because I have no idea how this one could carry on. If you can soldier through the first half this one gets a hesitant recommendation.(less)

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Jul 19, 2008

Kevin J. Rogers rated it

Recommends it for: Fans of hard science fiction.

Stephen Baxter is an aeronautical engineer by trade, and his formal training shines through in this entertaining and enlightening book. His descriptions of the technology needed to further explore our solar system (and the stars beyond) are excellent, as are his expository passages on the current thinking in physics and his imaginative use of those theories within the framework of his story. And the story itself is fast-paced, intriguing, and full of twists, turns, and surprises. The ending i...more

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Jan 18, 2009

Kristen rated it

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Baxter's work, if I'm remembering the right author, is generally difficult stuff. This one, though, really aggravated me, because the whole thing (including all the characters' motivations) revolves around a flawed concept of how statistics and probability work. In brief, this is the notion of a "probabilistic doomsday," which suggests that because the probability of any given human being alive now is very small if the future holds an indefinitely expanding or even stabilizing popula...more

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Sep 15, 2011

Ralf rated it

It's unfortunate that Baxter decided to build the story of the book upon the premise of the so called Carter Catastrophe. This statistical doomsday argument is not only counter intuitive, it is also completely bogus. The wikipedia page on this topic and the discussion subpage host quite a freak show of college math level tea leaf readers making a dance about their 'mathematical proofs'. I say unfortunate because the true beauty of Manifold Time is how Baxter resolves the bleak possible future of...more

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May 03, 2011

Daniel Roy rated it

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Stephen Baxter has been crowned by many as the modern king of hard science fiction. It's no coincidence that he has collaborated with Arthur C. Clarke on some novels, because his works share a lot of qualities and flaws. That is not to say his novels are not original and inventive: even Clarke himself never dreamed of the immensity of scope that Baxter weaved into Manifold: Time.

Manifold: Time opens up innocently enough, with an ex-astronaut-turned-CEO trying to launch a venture into space to mi...moreStephen Baxter has been crowned by many as the modern king of hard science fiction. It's no coincidence that he has collaborated with Arthur C. Clarke on some novels, because his works share a lot of qualities and flaws. That is not to say his novels are not original and inventive: even Clarke himself never dreamed of the immensity of scope that Baxter weaved into Manifold: Time.

Manifold: Time opens up innocently enough, with an ex-astronaut-turned-CEO trying to launch a venture into space to mine near-Earth asteroids. Fairly quickly, however, the novel throws a curveball, and the joyride begins: soon enough, you'll be reading all about sending radio signals back in time, statistical predictions of the end of Humanity, the heat death of the Universe, and phase change of the void.

If this all sounds like a hard read, well, it is. I would not recommend Manifold: Time to anyone who is not deeply into SF, and who doesn't have at least a layman's interest in cosmology and astrophysics. If you are capable of overlooking the sometimes dry prose of, say, Azimov and Clarke, and still get a kick out of their awesome speculative concepts, then you will be more than rewarded by Baxter's novel. As a matter of fact, Manifold: Time is sure to delight and surprise even the most jaded hard SF reader.

There's one sequence in particular in Manifold: Time that will just blow your mind. I won't spoil it here, other than to say it involves visions of the far future. And when I say far, I mean far: to my knowledge, I've never seen a SF novel that dared go that far into the future. The result is a vertigo-inducing thrill ride, and on the strength of it alone, I heartily recommend this novel.

I already mentioned the thin characters and average writing, but since they're not the focus of this book, I hesitate to criticize them too much. I'm a huge fan of well-crafted stories and characters, so it did annoy me throughout the book. Characters are vaguely defined, and you can tell the book is written by an engineer. In Baxter books where the core concepts are so-so (Exultant), it's enough to make me put the book down. In his stronger works (Coalescent), it's a minor obstacle. In Manifold: Time, possibly his strongest book to date, it's a minor irritant you'll most likely learn to overlook by page 50.

It's worth noting that Manifold: Time is the first of a trilogy, composed of Manifold: Space and Manifold: Origin. These two sequels do not take place after Manifold: Time, but rather in separate universes. As such, the first novel stands up perfectly well on its own. The next two books are said to be of lesser quality, but this shouldn't prevent you from picking up Manifold: Time, and enjoy its mental joyride of truly cosmic proportions.(less)

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Apr 13, 2011

Teri Dluznieski rated it

I had already read several of Baxter's books when I read Manifold:Time. Before Manifold, I enjoyed his work After Manifold- I was completely sucked in and hooked. After reading this one, I began to search out and order all of his other books. I really loved how Baxter took on the subject of quantum physics. He takes the space and time, woven into the story to explain many very complex concepts, and he also illustrates and demonstrates them within the context of the story. this combination...more

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Mar 26, 2011

Andreas rated it

Manifold is not a series per se, but rather different explorations of the theme “Are we alone in the universe?”. In “Time”, a portal is discovered in the solar system, and some fascinating stuff happens related to preserving life and intelligence in the long term. In “Space”, The Fermi Paradox is suddenly reversed, with aliens appearing everywhere and the whole universe is just one big fight for resources, to the point of utter barbarism.

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Jan 24, 2011

Jonathan Cullen rated it

Recommends it for: marine cephalopods

Squuuuiiiidddsss innnnnn sppppaaacceeeee….

I enjoyed attending Stephen Baxter's class…wait, this was a novel?? Manifold: Time is the epitome of a Baxter three-star effort: some mind-bending ideas about the cosmos, a plot, some classroom lessons, some bad exposition of facts and some cardboard characters. That being said, I have enjoyed three of the four Baxter novels I've read to date, including this one.

In true Baxter style, Manifold is a canvas for awesome cosmological t...moreSquuuuiiiidddsss innnnnn sppppaaacceeeee….

I enjoyed attending Stephen Baxter's class…wait, this was a novel?? Manifold: Time is the epitome of a Baxter three-star effort: some mind-bending ideas about the cosmos, a plot, some classroom lessons, some bad exposition of facts and some cardboard characters. That being said, I have enjoyed three of the four Baxter novels I've read to date, including this one.

In true Baxter style, Manifold is a canvas for awesome cosmological theories and implications. I re-read passages to understand the scope. It was very cool in that respect. However, the characters are forgettable and are basically mouthpieces for the physics lessons. Also, and unfortunately, most of Baxter's books are lessons in how not to handle exposition in a story. Good exposition gives us information in the flow of the story. We don't even know it's being done. We're just being introduced to the author's world and ideas…naturally. Baxter kind of gives up and just uses a smart character to explain things to a less smart character, who is a proxy for the likely even less smart reader.

Manifold: Time covers the Doomsday argument, Fermi paradox, genetic engineering, and humanity's extinction. I occasionally read non-fiction that discusses these types of ideas, and I'm sure I could perhaps find better sources to base myself on, but I have a day job and I like fiction. So, as a rule, and to a limited extent, I forgive Mr. Baxter's failure to use good exposition and characterization. Whatever, it's fun. The fact that a ragtag plot holds some of the information together is fine. Just be prepared to read with your eyes constantly rolling due to how you're being fed the information.

In this first book in the Manifold series, entrepreneur Reid Malenfant has an idea to exploit an asteroid for space travel when he's convinced by a weirdo to communicate with future humans to figure out how to outsmart humanity's doomed destiny. There's Big Dumb Objects, statistics, time travel, black hole energy harvesting, and squids. In space.

A particular beef: this book introduced me to the concept of the "Carter catastrophe". In looking it up during and after the book, I'm pretty sure that Baxter could have described it a little better. When I read the probabilistic doomsday prediction in Manifold, it felt very flawed to me, and I couldn't let that go. I'm no mathlete but it was kind of the lynchpin to the whole story and I wasn't buying it. I also did not buy how quickly Malenfant accepts the theory wholesale.

I love being exposed to these kinds of ideas, so I will continue to read Baxter. In particular, I am fascinated by the Fermi paradox (the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations) and its solutions. I understand this is dealt with more in the sequel, Manifold: Space. I'll read that…and likely give it three stars and copy, paste, and only mildly edit this current review.(less)

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Jul 02, 2010

John rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is an extraordinarily ambitious and complex novel . . . and in it I have at last found an sf story that accords with the pejorative phrase Margaret Atwood uses to diminish all the science fiction she doesn't write herself: yes, this is the skiffy novel that has talking squid in it! In fact, the way Baxter has handled the sections featuring the squid impressed me greatly: I found myself empathizing with the creatures in a way I would not have thought possible.

In a future so near we've...more

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Nov 12, 2009

Dan rated it

I don't want to take the time to write out a full review for this book, so here's just a few un-organized thoughts:

Sometimes it feels like the story is just a framework for Baxter to explain cosmological theories and principles of physics. This leads to very boring stretches in the book, like when the main characters are traveling through hundreds of virtually indistinguishable universes that differ only in their laws and durations (which the characters are somehow able to intuit ba...more

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Dec 24, 2011

Richard rated it

Spoilers ahead... Baxter is very reminiscent of Arthur C Clarke as an author. His books are always original and full of fascinating ideas. But, like Clarke, the plots and characters are always in service of the ideas, and disappointingly, they always leave me a bit cold.

This book is no different. The characters are generally unlikable and hard to sympathise with. They seem to make irrational and difficult to credit decisions whenever the story calls for it - for example when Malenfent ...more

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Aug 21, 2011

Becky rated it

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction

I can't decide how I feel about this. It was a good book - well thought out, well written and paced. And yet...I know that eventually the Sun will go supernova and Earth will be destroyed. And eventually the energy of the Big Bang will be expended, and the Universe will cool. One of these events will be the end of humanity, if we haven't managed to do ourselves in beforehand. None of this bothers me on an existential level. But somehow, being forced to confront it in science fiction seems cru...more

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Dec 31, 2010

James Williams rated it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is a weird book. At some parts, it's an excellent example of hard sci-fi (at the end of the volume, the author makes an extensive list of which of the ideas he used are true). At other times, the book gets so deep into the hand-wavy mumbo-jumbo techno-babble that it becomes frustrating and almost comical. The book introduces several super-intelligent characters whose job seems to be to babble on for several pages of science-y exposition while the view-point characters say "I don't unde...more

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Dec 29, 2009

Crystal rated it

*whew!* done. Exhausting, depressing, silliness. And I'm confused, how is it Emma survived to see the end of it all in the year 2208?! The story begins 2010... and yet there she is. And the congresswoman, too. Oops! big error here. Uh oh, would this be considered a spoiler? Well, I don't care .. I don't recommend this to anyone. The open desires for a socialist world order together with the atheist and humanist movements are too in-your-face nowadays and only spawns hopelessness and despai...more*whew!* done. Exhausting, depressing, silliness. And I'm confused, how is it Emma survived to see the end of it all in the year 2208?! The story begins 2010... and yet there she is. And the congresswoman, too. Oops! big error here. Uh oh, would this be considered a spoiler? Well, I don't care .. I don't recommend this to anyone. The open desires for a socialist world order together with the atheist and humanist movements are too in-your-face nowadays and only spawns hopelessness and despair hence the violent world reaction and breakdown of society in the story. I'll say it is "ok" only for the relationship of Melanfant and Emma. I hung in there just to see if they'd make it.

Now on page 100 I'm feeling pretty inadequate when compared to Sheena the squid. Not only can she repair space equipment using sea silk spun from sea weed she gathers but she can recognize star positions well enough to determine her position in space even more accurately than Dan at command center on Earth. I don't blame her for looking at mankind as inferior. *geez* Scary hint that Dan may end up with one peeved-off mollusc.
fyi don't know who Art Morris is - wierd pop up view into miscellaneous, unknown character today - but no, once a Marine, always a Marine, esp when "disabled out" there is no "used-to-be" Marine!
Another thing I can not understand about this crazy writing ... if a squid understands it has responsibility to this mission, why does the beyond genius child not figure he's gifted for a purpose beyond living in a grass hut? and does he really think the village herbalist is the most powerful?
And, um, if Cornelius knows the "Carter catastrophe" is coming "no matter what",then would he really care whether the U.S., Russia, China or Sesame Street is first to fund an off-Earth program? *for Pete's sake*
lmao I don't know who made me laugh more ... the congresswoman's "Carter? Who the hell is Carter?" or Sheena's remembering the male she had known, "the male with the bright, mindless eyes." Mindless? lmao. Even a squid gives you guys no break.
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I am only on page 55 of this soap-opera science fiction ... should I bother to finish? It's crazy stupid. And hilarious! I'll have to pick it back up tomorrow to find answers to these questions:
Will the jaded accountant be able to convince her eccentric ex-husband/boss to start the family they chose not to when married because they once believed the world was overpopulated now that they're given a graph showing the world will indeed end in 200 years because of overpopulation?
Who is this mysterious and creepy benefactor Cornelius? Is he a prophet? An alien? Or more likely, could he be from the future? If so, how many more times will he say "I don't know"? Thus far, I've counted 6.
And, most importantly, has Sheena the squid ruined the mission before it gets off the ground by getting herself knocked up? Will Dan the marine biologist forgive her? Has the congresswoman risked her career by getting involved at all? Did she ever get to pee? rflmao - what lunacy. (less)

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Jan 15, 2011

Faith Justice rated it

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From the flyleaf: "The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. But as the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to gable on a bolder, brighter future. That man--Reid Malenfant--has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the explorations an colonization of space."

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Jan 17, 2011

Lasairfiona Smith rated it

Recommends it for: geeky friends, anyone who loves space

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This is hard scifi done well: wrapped in a decent fiction story. What pulls the book are the two main characters that were once in love but are now divorced. However they still work together and this is sometimes a strain. The character development is a bit of a stretch, especially when the really good stuff is dictated to you via dairy entries or self narration. You really do care very deeply about the squid (yes, squid and she is awesome) but that part fades as the book progresses and the ...more

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Mar 13, 2011

Peter added it · review of another edition

You won't be able to put this book down: Stephen Baxter combines his ability to grip the reader with an extremely engaging plot and to challenge your mind with his ideas. This is hard core SF with captivating ideas popping up all over the place. From the doom of the Carter Prophecy to sending squid into space, Stephen Baxter explores many topics in detail masterfully without detracting from the plot while including probably the best time-jump sequences I have ever read. The ending may well blow ...more

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Apr 17, 2010

Dennis Matheson rated it

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Mar 23, 2011

Jason rated it

To cut to the chase, I didn't care for this book much at all. I've never read a sci-fi book so heavy on science, by which I mean he spent a LOT of time explaining various scientific principles. There were LONG passages where various ideas and theories are discussed, explained, etc, so much so that, for me, it killed the flow of the story. I like science, and I like novels. For me, this was NOT a good mix. Tell me what's going on, not why. I don't care, in the context of a novel, about Rela...more

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Nov 08, 2007

Mike rated it

Shelves: scifi

Bootstrap to outer space was a great start. It was a good read at the time but I can't remember anything about it now except it was very strange at the end.

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Nov 27, 2009

Eric rated it

This book has some interesting ideas, but lacks for good characters. I liked how Baxter played with the idea of time being a stream and that the the future can reach back to change itself. I also like the ideas about how to get to space by making short trips to resource rich near earth objects and then spread from there and so on. The idea of creating more mind by creating a bigger bang is also sort of cool.
The characters all sort of sucked. I felt the most for Emma because I could underst...more

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May 20, 2009

Mark R. Rinker rated it

Stephen Baxter's "Manifold: Time" is apparently the first in a trilogy of books concerning alternate universes, but I'll be content not knowing how the second and third books go. While certainly full of ideas (regarding, among other things, time travel, space time travel, super-smart squids, and super-smart kids), the writing is generally dry and the characters unengaging.

Baxter clearly has a science background, but his writing could benefit from a possible collaboration w...more

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Dec 10, 2010

Billthebloody rated it

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Shelves: sci-fi

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Time is the first in Baxter's Manifold series of stories all concerning explanations of the Fermi paradox and of existence itself. The central character in Time is Reid Malenfant, an astronaut dropout who, obsessed with kick-starting humanity's expansion into space, creates his own space venture company launching craft into the solar system. A stranger comes to him with "evidence" of an impending catastrophe that will destroy the human race within 200 years. Suddenly his goals of harve...more

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Oct 17, 2009

Pat rated it

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Sometimes, while reading a book, I wish I could ask the author: "You're going somewhere with all this, aren't you?"

Usually, this happens somewhere in the middle of the book. With Manifold: Time, it happened in the first few chapters.

We have a fella who's messing about with surplus NASA hardware, trying to build his own spaceship. We have another fella - who's more than a little creepy - predicting the imminent extinction of the human race.

There's a s...more

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Aug 27, 2008

Noah M. rated it

I'm going to preemptively review this book with five stars.

Allow me to explain why--

One of the POV characters is a genetically enhanced squid (given human level intelligence) who is sent on an exploratory mission to an asteroid. The squid, without the human trainer's knowledge, is pregnant when she leaves on the trip.

After a while, space squids begin expanding their habitat, developing culture, expanding through the solar system.

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Apr 01, 2008

Bill Purdy rated it

Recommends it for: Geeks. Pretty much only geeks.

I read the first two of three in this series, Manifold: Time and Manifold: Space. Manifold: Origin is sitting on my shelf, and will likely remain there for some time, as the first two books have almost completely exhausted my hunger for hard sci-fi.

And by "hard" sci-fi, I mean science fiction that is less about story or character than it is about ideas, specifically scientific ideas. Baxter's ideas are so technical and obtuse as to be almost incomprehensible to a lay person...moreI read the first two of three in this series, Manifold: Time and Manifold: Space. Manifold: Origin is sitting on my shelf, and will likely remain there for some time, as the first two books have almost completely exhausted my hunger for hard sci-fi.

And by "hard" sci-fi, I mean science fiction that is less about story or character than it is about ideas, specifically scientific ideas. Baxter's ideas are so technical and obtuse as to be almost incomprehensible to a lay person like myself, and his scope so far-reaching it's difficult to really appreciate their fundamental elegance.

Still, if you like that kind of thing, these books are worth a try.

Both novels revolve around the same character, an egotistic space nut billionaire named Reid Malenfant. But both novels presumably take place in slightly alternate universes, because though the timeframe for the beginning of the story is the same, Malenfant's circumstances are completely different.

In Manifold: Time, Malenfant the industrialist has plans to privately mine an asteroid in an effort to be the first to exploit (and thereby stake a claim to) the nearly limitless resources available in near space. Rather than send humans (which is expensive, you see), he sends genetically modified and specially trained reef squid. You read that correctly -- he puts on a spaceship cephalapods that have developed enough intelligence to operate the spaceship and associated mining machinery.

It is a testament to Baxter's own intelligence and storytelling ability that he pulls the whole squid-spaceship thing off, and manages to do so convincingly. Kudos to him.

Anyway, a mathemetician convinces Malenfant that a catastrophe called "The Carter Event" will in all likelihood occur within 200 years, and in the process end humanity (conceptually, this is pretty cool stuff, and is presented in a most fascinating manner). So, his plans are altered somewhat, at more or less the same time that the squids go all rogue and reveal a quantum portal of some sort on the asteroid and the population of superintelligent autistic children on Earth reaches a critical mass. A few trips through the portal and we're looking at our universe in its waning hours, billions of years from now. Oh! And the autistics build a special rocket to the moon and colonize it, too.

Is that big enough for ya?

Still, if you can handle the big stuff, modern sci-fi doesn't offer much better.(less)

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Feb 25, 2008

Michaelbert Humperdink rated it

This guy is amazing! Arthur C. Clarke posed interesting questions but often failed to answer them. Baxter asks interesting questions and doesn't leave monoliths floating around. His denouements are not only satisfying but lead to more speculation, at least by me.

This was the state of Baxter's writing up to around 2000, when some sort of chiliastic madness possessed him and he started writing tedious tomes about various protohumans throwing excrement at one another. But that's for an...more

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Jan 14, 2011

Alexis rated it

Interesting for the concepts. Look past the author's ill-conceived lame social predictions and the terrible writing. Honestly, can someone tell me why every non-scientist character talks like a retired general in a Tom Clancy novel? And why can't someone who's obviously done so much research actually read some of the sources he's trying to mimic--when would the NY Times ever use the phrase "a bunch of kids"? Anyway, I'll read the next ones in the trilogy but I wish Greg Bear had wr...more

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Jul 20, 2008

Pat rated it

Recommends it for: serious sci-fi junkies who like drama

I am so glad to be finished with this book. As a sci-fi fan, I always take the rave reviews with a grain of salt--standards tend to be lower in this genre than "serious" fiction--, but this one was 'WAY below what the reviews led me to expect. I will grant that Mr. Baxter plays with some extremely complex ideas in sophisticated ways. Unfortunately, they were neither very engaging nor very subtle ways. When an author feels a need to name his rogue entrepreneur/astronaut/playboy "...more

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Aug 06, 2011

Tom rated it

You really need to like hardcore science fiction and lots of physics and astronomy stuff to really enjoy this book. It definitely makes you think somewhat if you have some background in these subjects. I read one of the other manifold books before this one, and I think I got into the characters more in that one, than this. What made it strange is since I was already acquainted with 2 of the characters, I felt I should empathize more with them now, but I didn't.

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