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 have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Northumberland.
‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the
country’
THE TIMES ‘The best SF writer in Britain’
SFX Praise for Stephen Baxter’s short fiction: ‘The stories are the
purest distillation of hard SF. They add up to an essential
collection’
INTERZONE ‘A luminous collection . . . Baxter can overwhelm you
with a traditional SF “sense of wonder” until your jaw drops’
SFX ‘Baxter sends into free-fall the most awesome ideas in science
fiction today … [He] reveals the mortal host in the machine.’
THE TIMES
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