Novels by Stephen Baxter (Book Guide): Ark, the Time Ships, Coalescent, Timelike Infinity, Titan, Flood, Time's Eye, Firstborn, Transcendent

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: Ark, The Time Ships, Coalescent, Timelike Infinity, Titan, Flood, Time's Eye, Firstborn, Transcendent, Flux, The Light of Other Days, Voyage, Manifold: Space, Weaver, Exultant, Ring, Evolution, Anti-Ice, Sunstorm, Stone Spring, Manifold: Time, Raft, Manifold: Origin, Moonseed, Emperor, Reality Dust, Icebones, Silverhair, Longtusk, Starfall, Webcrash, Gulliverzone. Excerpt: Ark is a hard science fiction novel by UK author Stephen Baxter. It comes as the sequel to Baxter's acclaimed 2008 novel Flood. Ark deals with the journey of Ark One, which Baxter has revealed to be a long-range spaceship, and the continuing human struggle for survival on Earth after the catastrophic events of Flood. It was published August 20, 2009 by Gollancz. Readers are initially introduced to the principal characters in a flashback to 2031. At this time, the rising sea levels have inundated most of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and the flood waters have risen as far north as Kentucky, causing a considerable influx of internally displaced persons ("eye-dees" is a derogatory term used to describe them). For the moment, Denver and most of Colorado are safe from harm, and has become the new capitol of a drowning United States. Although civil war is brewing with separatist Utah over control of untainted fresh water supplies and former Interstate Highway System roads. With the future of humanity uncertain, affluent inhabitants of the United States and remaining elements of NASA have funded a desperate and far-fetched get-away plan called 'Nimrod'; to ensure the continued survival of the human race, they construct a massive interstellar spacecraft from conjoined and modified Ares rockets and Space shuttle components that is capable of superluminal travel, and is christened as 'Ark One' under the s...

30 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 2010

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Reviews

[Deeradcliffe]

Loved Ark which is a sequeal to Flood. Perhaps there will be another about the water finally receeding. Dee

[Norma · Rating 4 out of 5]

I Will be reading the sequel.