Origin - Stephen Baxter

Concluding the epic Manifold series that began with TIME and continued with SPACE: 2015. Astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth's orbit.

Award-winning author Stephen Baxter takes us to the heart of the Manifold with Origin, the third and final book in the series. At last the hidden resolution of the Fermi paradox is revealed in all its stunning significance.

What kind of power hangs a new moon in our sky? NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying a military jet over Africa when a vast electric-blue circle appears in the air - and the Red Moon dramatically replaces our ancient, cherished moon. Malenfant's plane is destroyed as he chases the alien circle of light.

Though Malenfant survives, his wife Emma is swept up and hurled towards the Red Moon. Through the months of floods and earthquakes that follow Malenfant singlemindedly lobbies for a moonshot to rescue her.

He's heading for the Red Moon where time and space converge, the origin of the manifold.

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

'The most important living science-fiction writer in the country'
THE TIMES

'The best SF writer in Britain'
SFX

Praise for The Manifold Trilogy:

'Pacy, visionary, extravagantly imagined, TIME places Baxter firmly in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov'
THE TIMES

'Highly intelligent, with original ideas in almost every sentence'
THE GUARDIAN

'Baxter is taking basic SF ideas and rebuilding them based on current science, technology and politics . [He] apparently has the ambition and the energy to reinvigorate hard SF all by himself'
LOCUS

'It's time for Baxter to take his place alongside Asimov and Heinlein'
EDGE