Manifold: Time(Manifold (Hardcover))

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 exploration and colonization of space.Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they?A staggering novel! If you ever thought you understood time, you'll be quickly disillusioned when you read Manifold: Time. SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKEA joy to read -- an exuberant and involving exploration of time. GREG BEARReading Manifold: Time is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don't feel both exhausted and exhilarated when you're done, you haven't been working hard enough. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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"A STAGGERING NOVEL! If you ever thought you understood time, you'll be quickly disillusioned when you read "Manifold: Time,"" -SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE "A JOY TO READ-AN EXUBERANT AND INVOLVING EXPLORATION OF TIME." -GREG BEAR "Reading "Manifold: Time" is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don't feel both exhausted and exhilarated when you're done, you haven't been working hard enough." -"The New York Times Book Review ""REMARKABLE . . . INTRIGUING . . . FAST-PACED." "-The Washington Post " "DAZZLING . . . PROFOUNDLY REWARDING . . . The scope of the book is awesome. . . . [Baxter] expertly captures the giddy rush of future shock." -"Vector" "If ideas were radioactive particles, "Manifold: Time" would be a block of plutonium. The story takes off at near-lightspeed . . . Baxter treats readers to a gallery of cosmic wonders, including a haunting look at a future so unimaginably distant that beings of that era see our own time as part of the hot, bright aftermath of the Big Bang." -"Science Fiction Weekly " "Recommended . . . Discoveries and adventures abound . . . Most science fiction writers wish to make their readers feel the thrill, the sense of wonder, that so marked SF's youth that the genre still claims it as a sort of trademark, even though it is scarcely to be found today. Baxter succeeds as very few do." -"Analog" "Baxter sets a crackling pace. . . . Visionary [and] extravagantly imagined, "Time" places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov." -"The London Times" Recommended by "Locus" Magazine "SCIENCE FICTION AT ITS BEST . . . Baxter tops the old master[H.G. Wells] by taking us on a journey of "trillions" of years." -"For Him Magazine" "[Baxter's] originality is incontrovertible. The technical detail is as adroit as his unparalleled narrative skills. . . . [Filled] with the imaginative grandeur and much sought-after 'sense of wonder' that only the finest science fiction can produce." -"News International" "Baxter brings an inventive twist to the standard sf themes of time and space travel as he explores the intricate relationships between mind and matter. His use of multiple points of view creates a level of personal immediacy that provides a human counterpoint to a tale of cosmic proportions." "-Library Journal " "A treat for readers who revel in scientific extrapolation." "-Kirkus Reviews " "PROBABLY THE MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING WRITING YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR. . . . [Baxter] manages to take the most esoteric cosmological ideas and mesh them into a fast-paced novel. . . . Black holes; superstring theory; the heat death of the universe-he wraps them all together and makes them accessible. . . . It's time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein." -"Edge" magazine "A blockbuster novel which is not content to restrict its ambition to just one universe . . . Thoroughly enjoyable." -"The Matrix" "Baxter is the equal of Gregory Benford or Greg Bear when it comes to describing spectacular astronomical phenomena . . . and he shares with Arthur C. Clarke and Olaf Stapledon the ability to portray enormous vistas of time and space to great effect. . . . There's plenty here to spark the veteran SF reader's sense of wonder." "-Publishers Weekly " MANIFOLD: SPACE "Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein succeeded . . . and now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks, writing science fiction in which the science is right." -"New Scientist" "BAXTER IS A DEEP THINKER AND A VISIONARY WRITER." -DAVID BRIN