New Releases by Stephen Baxter

Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror''s survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The book addresses big questions about pre-modern government, written records, and the use of intelligence in both senses: the minds behind the planning and execution of Domesday, and the information about England that Domesday gathered. It characterizes Exon as the surviving part of the ''working papers'' of one of the writing offices that over a period of ten weeks in summer 1086 dealt with all seven ''circuits'' (regional groupings of shires) of the Domesday survey. The circuit offices had the task of recasting the manorial descriptions assembled in an earlier stage of the survey into an interim form intended for further redaction as Great Domesday Book by rearrangement, rewording, and abbreviation. A new deep understanding of the codicology and palaeography of Exon underpins every part of the analysis, and offers a model of documentary production for royal government at an exceptionally early period in western Europe. Part I describes and analyses each Exon text in unprecedented detail; Part II places Domesday in context and in broad comparative perspective, ranging across and beyond the Latin West. The dual approach provides a new interpretation of Domesday and a deeper understanding of both the Domesday survey and Domesday Book. It emerges that the survey was even more complex than we had dared to imagine, involving the production of different kinds of text intended to meet a range of fiscal and political needs. It is also clear that the survey was immediately effective, transforming the politics of land in a newly conquered society. Domesday has always been thought awesome, as its very name shows; Making Domesday contends that it was also a feat of intelligent government deployed by an aggressive and ambitious regime. As such it speaks to broader concerns with the colonial domination of conquered societies through the purposeful collection of systematic statistical information.

What would happen to the world if the sun went out? New epic sci-fi from Stephen Baxter, the award-winning author whose credits include co-authorship of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett. By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way. But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze Earth begins to fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh. Someone has sent us a sign.

Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising. But some changes were not small. The solar system has been altered, changed, shaped in the various realities, and the World Engineers - unspeakably powerful, completely unknown - are still active. Why have they populated this planet with humanity''s ancestors and dinosaurs? What is on the moon of Saturn that gives off such an odd light? And even if they can be found, can they be stopped - and should they be? Malenfant, Deidra and the rest of their party must find a way off the planet, back into space, and into the many dimensions seeking the answer...

A hard-SF cli-fi saga set against the background of the birth of the solar system. Filled to the brim with big ideas and breathtaking worldbuilding In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . . In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns . . . By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars. After 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call Emma II, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved . . . His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining . . . But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years . . . Readers are blown away by World Engines: Destroyer: ''The book quickly becomes epic in a massive, yet thoroughly believable way, precisely because the story is grounded in all of these well-realised characters'' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''It is a really good Cli-Fi but not only ecological . . . It touches on very many different topics that are very much in our future'' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''It''s a great sci-fi novel, well written and gripping. I loved the amazing world building, the fleshed out cast of characters and the plot'' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''This is a complex book with a lot going on . . . Suffice to say this was a fantastic read with a great story, good characters & a world that I would very much like to come back to'' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''The large scale is always where Baxter is so exciting and passionate and it pays off in spades in the final act. Worth your time to read and enjoy'' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''If you love your science fiction hard, look no further than Stephen Baxter to find your fix. He was literally a rocket scientist. His work is always grounded in science'' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Mit dieser einzigartigen Storysammlung beweist der britische Kultautor Stephen Baxter einmal mehr, dass er zu den Besten seines Fachs gehört – und dass er die kurze Form ebenso meisterhaft beherrscht, wie die großen Epen. Ob er uns nun mit zurück in die Welt von Proxima und Ultima nimmt oder sich mit seinen Alternate-History-Geschichten vor dem großen Terry Pratchett verneigt – Stephen Baxter hat mit Obelisk ein Werk vorgelegt, das sich kein Science-Fiction-Fan entgehen lassen sollte.

El Cosmos Largo es la emocionante y esperanzadora conclusión de la serie « La Tierra Larga» , escrita a cuatro manos por dos de las voces más brillantes de la ficción especulativa, que ya lleva vendidos más de un millón de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Año 2070. Casi seis décadas después de su fundación, la comunidad posthumana establecida en la Tierra Larga sigue evolucionando. Con los sesenta ya cumplidos, Joshua Valienté se prepara para emprender la última aventura en solitario, que está a punto de acabar en desastre. Mientras Joshua se enfrenta a lo que parece una muerte segura, la radio capta una señal procedente de las estrellas. Una señal que transmite un mensaje muy simple, pero cuyas consecuencias se desconocen: UNÍOS A NOSOTROS. La esperanza no está perdida. Mientras Joshua se adapta a la vida entre los trolls, y aprende a no dar nunca nada por supuesto, la Tierra Larga se prepara para construir una inteligencia artificial sin precedentes conocida como La Máquina, un mecanismo que revelará el objetivo final de los emisores del mensaje y cuyo impacto afectará a todos aquellos que habitan los mundos de la Tierra Larga. Reseñas: «Apasionante y estimulante en la misma medida.» Daily Mail «Si has seguido la serie desde el principio, este último capítulo te hará llorar.» Guardian «Una de las delicias inesperadas del último Pratchett... Una novela que parece una carta de amor a la ciencia ficción en sí misma.» SFX Magazine «La serie de "La Tierra Larga" merece un lugar en las estanterías de los fans de la ciencia ficción y de los lectores de todo tipo.» Independent on Sunday «Ciencia ficción accesible, entretenida y reflexiva.» Independent

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has moved on, always watching the skies but confident that we know how to defeat the alien menace. The Martians are vulnerable to Earth germs. The army is prepared. Our technology has taken great leaps forward, thanks to machinery looted from abandoned war-machines and capsules. So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells’ book. He is sure that the first incursion was merely a scouting mission, a precursor to the true attack—and that the Martians have learned from their defeat, adapted their methods, and now pose a greater threat than ever before. He is right. Thrust into the chaos of a new worldwide invasion, journalist Julie Elphinstone—sister in law to Walter Jenkins—struggles to survive the war, report on it, and plan a desperate effort that will be humanity’s last chance at survival. Because the massacre of mankind has begun. Echoing the style and form of the original while extrapolating from its events in ingenious, unexpected fashion again and again, The Massacre of Mankind is a labor of love from one of the genre’s most praised talents—at once a truly fitting tribute to a classic and brainy, page-turning fun for any science-fiction fan.

Stephen Baxter''s highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world...

Stephen Baxter''s The Martian in the Wood, a Tor.com Original In the aftermath of the First Martian War, in the interim between it and what was to come later, England seemed to once again become a green and peaceful place, if one haunted by the terrible events in Surrey that had happened in those early years of the century. Although people hoped and prayed peace had come, they were wrong. Across the gulf of space, plans were being drawn for a return, but before they could bear fruit a terrible discovery was made deep in Holmburgh Wood, one that would tear a family apart and shock the world. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Die Fortsetzung der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Reihe um die »Lange Erde«. 2045–2059: Während sich die Menschheit auf der Datumerde weiterentwickelt, ihrem von Katastrophen heimgesuchten und in die Jahre gekommenen Heimatplaneten, schreitet auch die Besiedelung der unendlich vielen Welten der Langen Erde voran. Lobsang, der als künstliche Intelligenz über Jahrzehnte die Lange Erde erforscht hat, lebt nach einem Zusammenbruch als Mensch getarnt auf einer exotischen, weit entfernten Erde. Dort glaubt er, ein »normales« Leben führen zu können. Doch irgendetwas stimmt mit dieser Kopie der Erde nicht. Gemeinsam mit dem zu Hilfe gerufenen Joshua entdeckt Lobsang, dass sich ein unbekannter Planet in einer der Welten der Langen Erde verfangen hat. Mit wenig erfreulichen Aussichten für deren Bewohner ...

The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life? 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: “Join us.” The Next—the hyper-intelligent post-humans—realize that the missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence known as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind. Meanwhile, on a trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, now nearing seventy, is saved from death when a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he recovers, Joshua develops a deeper understanding of this collective-intelligence species and its society. He discovers that some older trolls, with capacious memories, act as communal libraries, and live on a very strange Long Earth world, in caverns under the root systems of trees as tall as mountains. Valienté also learns something much more profound . . . about life and its purpose in the Long Earth: We cultivate the cosmos to maximize the opportunities for life and joy in this universe, and to prepare for new universes to come. The complete list of books in the Long Earth series include: The Long Earth The Long War The Long Mars The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos

Da física das viagens no espaço exterior à química antigravitacional do unobtanium, e da extraordinária flora e fauna de Pandora à possibilidade de transferência de consciência para outros corpos, o autor revela que às vezes podemos estar muito mais próximos do mundo de Pandora do que nossa mente pode imaginar. O ponto de partida do livro é ficcional, mas a obra é, fundamentalmente, sobre descobertas científicas reais. Baxter mostra também que, algumas vezes, muitos aspectos do mundo ecológico e equilibrado de Avatar são algo totalmente impossível. Neste livro você vai descobrir a verdade e a ficção por trás do filme de maior bilheteria de todos os tempos.

La segunda entrega de una serie escrita a cuatro manos por el aclamado Terry Pratchett, creador del Mundodisco, y el prestigioso autor de ciencia ficción británica, Stephen Baxter: una nueva aventura tan inteligente como divertida, que indaga las consecuencias de un mundo ilimitado. La Tierra Larga es un sinfín de mundos paralelos a solo un paso de distancia. La humanidad ha explorado muchos de ellos, impulsando el comercio y la cultura. Pero también ha alterado el equilibrio político de nuestra tierra de origen y la estabilidad ecológica de estos nuevos mundos. Por un lado, la Declaración de Independencia de una lejana colonia provoca la censura del gobierno ultraconservador. Por otro, los humanos han descubierto que los trolls, unos pacíficos humanoides capaces de cambiar de mundo, son muy útiles para el trabajo físico y los utilizan para su beneficio. Ante el inexorable avance de los colonos humanos, los trolls están empezando a desaparecer. En su día, Joshua Valienté lideró la primera misión de exploración de estos mundos múltiples junto con la unidad de inteligencia artificial llamada Lobsang. Ahora, una década después, Joshua se verá obligado a abandonar su vida apacible con su mujer e hijo. La Tierra Larga recurre de nuevo a él porque se avecina una guerra... una guerra distinta a todas las libradas hasta ahora. Reseñas: «Alquimia literaria.» SFX «La calidez y la humanidad de Pratchett se alían con la extraordinariamente fértil imaginación de Baxter.» The Guardian En los blogs... «Una novela que deja con ganas de más.» Blog Sagacomic-Lothlórien «Es ligero gracias a su narración y te engancha impidiéndote soltar el libro hasta que lo acabas.» Blog El Imperio de las Bellotas

La machine à explorer le temps est le texte fondateur de la science-fiction moderne. Lorsque s''achève le récit de H. G. Wells, le Voyageur se prépare à repartir dans le futur sauver Weena, la charmante Eloï, menacée par les cruels Morlocks... Par une chance extraordinaire, la narration de ce second voyage est parvenue à Stephen Baxter, un siècle exactement après la parution, en 1895, de La machine à explorer le temps. En voici la fidèle et surprenante transcription. Il n''est pas nécessaire pour le goûter d''avoir lu le récit du premier voyage. Reparti dans un lointain avenir, le Voyageur surpris découvre un monde différent de celui qu''il avait exploré, où les Morlocks disposent d''une civilisation technologique avancée et ne ressemblent plus aux barbares qu''il a connus. Flanqué du Morlock Nebogipfel, il s''aventurera sur les Vaisseaux du temps jusqu''aux confins du temps et de l''espace, des univers parallèles et des possibles. Sans jamais perdre l''espoir de retrouver la délicieuse Weena. Les vaisseaux du temps, dans la tradition de la plus haute science-fiction britannique, celle de Wells, de Stapledon, de Brunner, de Ballard, d''Aldiss et de Banks, est à la fois un roman d''aventures et un conte philosophique. C''est sans doute l''un des plus grands textes de science-fiction de la décennie. Il a obtenu le British Science-Fiction Award 1996, le John Campbell Memorial Award 1996 et le Philip K. Dick Award 1997, et il a figuré parmi les cinq finalistes du prix Hugo en 1996.

La Tierra Larga es la primera obra en la que colaboran Terry Pratchett y Stephen Baxter, dos auténticos iconos de la literatura fantástica. 1916. El soldado Percy Blakeney recibe el impacto de un obús en una trinchera francesa. Despertará envuelto por el canto de los pájaros en un entorno pacífico, donde el barro y la metralla de la guerra han desaparecido. 2015, Madison, Estados Unidos. La agente de policía Monica Jansson investiga el incendio en la casa de un extravagante científico que ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Algunos lo tildan de loco, otros lo consideran muy peligroso. Entre los escombros, Monica descubre un curioso mecanismo compuesto de una caja, unos cables# y una patata. Se trata del prototipo de un invento que cambiará para siempre nuestra manera de ver el mundo. La Tierra Larga es la fascinante y divertidísima historia de un viaje de exploración hacia los confines de nuestro universo, y de un nuevo comienzo para la humanidad. Porque otros mundos nos esperan. Basta con dar un pequeño paso... La crítica ha dicho... «Una novela de ciencia ficción accesible, entretenida y reflexiva.» The Independent «La calidez y la humanidad de Pratchett se alían con la imaginación extraordinariamente fértil de Baxter.» The Guardian En los blogs... «Una verdadera joyita en el mundo de la ciencia ficción. Es cierto que los dos escritores tienen su propio estilo, pero ambos demuestran que se entienden a las mil maravillas.» Blog Tierra Cero «La novela triunfa en crear un mundo interesante y complejo, con tantas capas como mundos por descubrir [...] Uno de los grandes aciertos de este libro es que, pese a su trasfondo especulativo, el aspecto científico nunca llega a eclipsar a la ficción.» Blog La casa de El «Un libro de ciencia ficción muy entretenido y bien construido [...] Pasaréis un buen rato, de eso no hay duda.» Blog desdeOtranto

Az u200b1800-as évek közepén vívott krími háború fordulópontja volt Szevasztopol eleste. A hosszan elnyúló ostrom végül a jobb utánpótlási vonalakkal rendelkező szövetséges angol–török–francia csapatok javára dőlt el, melyek így megszállhatták a kiéheztetett várost. A mi világunkban. Stephen Baxter regényében a történelem menetét egy rendkívüli felfedezés forgatja fel: a Déli-sarkon egy angol utazó különleges jégre bukkan, amely melegítéskor nem vízzé olvad, hanem erős robbanást idéz elő. Ezt az antijégnek elnevezett anyagot vetik be a britek Szevasztopolnál, jóformán a földdel téve egyenlővé a várost. A felfedezésnek köszönhetően rohamos fejlődésnek indul a technika és a tudomány is, és az éjszakánként rejtélyes ikerholdak fényében fürdő Föld lakói fejüket kapkodva próbálják a lépést tartani a haladás mind sebesebben kattogó fogaskerekeivel. Baxter varázslatos gőzpunk világot épít fel a forradalmak és háborúk szaggatta 19. századi Európa romjain, megidézve Jules Verne szellemét, egyszersmind új politikai és etikai dilemmákkal szembesítve a rettentő pusztító és építő erők mellett eltörpülő ember hőseit.

The Long War by legendary author and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and award-winning science fiction novelist Stephen Baxter follows the adventures and travails of heroes Joshua Valiente and Lobsang in an exciting continuation of the extraordinary journey begun in the New York Times bestseller The Long Earth. War has come to the Long Earth.... Humankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by stepping, which Joshua and Lobsang explored a mere decade ago. Now "civilization" flourishes, and fleets of airships link the multiple Earths through exploration, trade, and culture. Humankind is shaping the Long Earth, but in turn the Long Earth is shaping humankind. A new America that has christened itself "Valhalla" has emerged more than a million steps from the original Datum Earth. And like the American revolutionaries of old, the Valhallans resent being controlled from afar by the Datum government. In the intervening years, the song of the trolls—graceful, hive-mind humanoids—has suffused the Long Earth. But in the face of humankind''s inexorable advance, they are beginning to fall silent . . . and gradually disappear. Joshua, now married and a father, is summoned by Lobsang. It seems that he alone can confront the perfect storm of crises that threatens to plunge all of the Long Earth into war. A war unlike any that has been waged before... The full list of books in the Long Earth series include: The Long Earth The Long War The Long Mars The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos

"2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. Inside there is no horse. But Sally finds a kind of home-made utility belt. She straps this on -- and ''steps'' sideways into an America covered with virgin forest. Willis came here with equipment and animals, meaning to explore and colonise. And when Sally gets back, she finds Willis has put the secret of the belt on the internet. The great migration has begun..."--From publisher description.

Signs of life have been found on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe. Stephen Baxter''s third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic and endearing story of an abandoned people. Abandoned to their fate, their history lost along with contact with their makers, Star people survive in an environment that is possibly the strangest in science fiction. Microscopic inhabitants of superfluid air above a Quantum Sea and below the tangled Crust of the Star, swimming in an electric-blue grid, the Magfield, which is subject to violent storms, Star people struggle, like us, to make sense of their world... and the threat hanging over it. Though the truth is far more disturbing and ominous than they feared, they will confront, finally, their makers, and they will rebel against the purpose for which they were created.

Obvykle, když neměl co na práci, naslouchal Tichu. Tady bylo Ticho velmi slabé. Téměř se ztrácelo ve zvucích obyčejného světa. Chápali vůbec lidé v téhle naleštěné budově, jak jsou hluční? Řev klimatizace a počítačových větráků, slyšitelné, ale nesrozumitelné mumlání mnoha hlasů... tohle byla kancelář TransZemského Institutu, což byla paže Černé Společnosti. Anonymní kanceláři, která byla samý sádrokarton a chrom, dominovalo obrovské logo firmy, šachový kůň. Tohle nebyl Jošuův svět. Nic z toho nebylo z jeho světa. Kdybychom šli skutečně ke kořenům věci, on vlastně ani žádný svět neměl, měl je všechny. Celou Dlouhou Zemi.

2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, allowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space.

2015: Astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth’s orbit.

Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron''s visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na''vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a scientific rationale for much of what we saw on the screen, from the possibility of travel to other worlds, to the life forms seen on screen and the ecological and cybernetic concepts that underpin the ''neural networks'' in which the Na''vi and their sacred trees are joined, as well as to the mind-linking to the avatars themselves. From popular science journalist and acclaimed science fiction author Stephen Baxter, The Science of Avatar is a guide to the rigorous fact behind the fiction. It will enhance the readers'' enjoyment of the movie experience by drawing them further into its imagined world.

The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying Earth. Itâe(tm)s a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems and there are stories of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore. And then young Phee Laws, surfing Saturnâe(tm)s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves caught in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could kill them all.

It''s the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...

The Philip K. Dick Award-winning saga of humankind''s next five million years: "Mind-stretching science fiction at its boldest." — Orlando Sentinel And everywhere the Humans went, they found life . . . This dazzling future history, the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov''s classic Foundation saga, tells the story of Humankind—all the way to the end of the Universe itself. Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time. "It''s old-fashioned 1950s-style science fiction . . . and it''s also lots of fun." — Cleveland Plain Dealer "Enormously impressive." — Locus

The concluding volume of the acclaimed Time''s Tapestry series. "This is the climax of one of the most thoughtful and involving series of novels that have brought history alive like no other."—Fantastic Fiction It is a war that has been fought throughout the centuries—the fate of Rome, the fate of Christendom, the fate of the young country called America—all were at stake down through the ages. Now, in the early days of WWII, as Germany launches a successful invasion of England, nothing less than the fate of the 20th century is to be determined. For the Nazi’s have a secret plan, far grander than simply subjugating an enemy. In the middle of that plan, tangled up in the strands of history, are Mary Wooler, an American historian caught in the Blitz; her son Gary, fighting a ruthless invader at civilization’s frontier; and Ben Kaman, a Jewish refugee whose dreams place him at the heart of the conspiracy that is threatening the fabric of the tapestry of time…