false 63742 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg 63742 7 97079 1999 Manifold: Time total:489|5:111|4:176|3:153|2:42|1:7| 489 1809 737 60 20295 3.71 5738 606 26771759 869989 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 442 1999 3 1 false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 12:29:27 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 09:08:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 43452162 1925147 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 2 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 08:03:20 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 08:03:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77622041 1373550 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 2 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 21:40:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 21:57:34 -0800 2009
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...more...]]> 80782665 2046178 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 0 0 false Sat Dec 12 14:06:49 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 17:00:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8866084 545336 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 3 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Nov 08 20:40:04 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 20:47:44 -0800 2007 77143844 712277 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 3 0 false Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 17:12:58 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 20:21:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 54961021 47081 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 2 1 false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:00:30 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:46:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 62686513 1887633 6309862 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309862.Manifold_Time 3.12 16 1999 2 0 false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 16:24:33 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 07:11:03 -0700 2009
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 abo...more...]]> 30724320 65714 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 5 1 false Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 17:31:07 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 04:14:35 -0700 2008
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 knowled...more...]]> 16887069 951420 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 4 0 false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Mar 03 06:10:25 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 19:41:06 -0700 2008
And by "hard" sci-fi, I mean ...more...]]> 16314697 935663 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 4 0 false Sat Mar 15 19:29:26 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 25 08:05:20 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 08:51:16 -0800 2008
This was the state of Ba...more...]]> 25758517 1036558 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 2 0 false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 12:30:48 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 21:46:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45648748 179277 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 3 0 false Sat Feb 07 09:15:53 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 09:19:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 68387834 584360 6309862 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309862.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 3 0 false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:30:46 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:10:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 65254703 50886 6309862 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309862.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 3 0 false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 07:33:20 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 09:47:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 72131160 2082325 6309862 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309862.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 2 0 false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:47:58 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:50:48 -0700 2009 67569275 2416439 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 4 0 false Sat Aug 15 21:46:35 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 21:47:37 -0700 2009 36457715 1665467 100685 0006511821 9780006511823 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171468856m/100685.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171468856s/100685.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100685.Time 4.00 10 Time begins with a US entrepreneur's deceptively low-key plans to reclaim space and exploit the asteroids, bypassing NASA's bureaucracy and safety regulations. One bizarre cost-cutting measure: the "Big Dumb Booster" pilot is a genetically enhanced, intelligent squid. Then the mission is redirected following a weird mathematical prediction that humanity hasn't long to live, and a "Feynman radio" transmission from the future that highlights a particular asteroid. Here a space-time gateway opens on unimaginably distant futures, stepping far beyond the dying sun of Wells's The Time Machine to visions of a galaxy reshaped by humanity to hoard its energy ... beyond stars, beyond black holes, beyond even mass. And the emerging message, seen most clearly by a new generation of persecuted, ultra-gifted children, is that this seeming triumph--this total exploitation of our universe's possibilities--isn't good enough. A better path awaits, via a cataclysm that dwarfs mere supernova explosions... Baxter pays homage to the transformations of Clarke's Childhood's End (there's also a nod to 2001), but without the mysticism: it's all respectable, if speculative, physics. His final, devastating payoff makes sequels seem impossible. Two are planned. Rousing stuff, on a cosmic scale. --David Langford]]> 1999 0 0 false Wed Oct 29 00:06:44 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 00:06:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 48107338 2091457 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 0 0 false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 03 08:52:04 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 10:53:26 -0800 2009 38695050 1515583 63742 034543076X 9780345430762 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061m/63742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619061s/63742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Manifold_Time 3.70 489 1999 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Nov 26 09:44:47 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 09:48:04 -0800 2008 2 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=63742