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Stephen Baxter è un autore di fantascienza britannico, specializzato nella fantascienza hard.

È laureato in matematica e ingegneria. I suoi scritti rientrano in tre categorie principali, ciascuna con uno stile e un tono molto differente.

Le storie della sua "Sequenza Xeelee" sono ambientate in un futuro remoto, in cui l'umanità si eleva a divenire la seconda più potente razza dell'universo, al fianco dei semidei Xeelee.

Come avviene spesso nelle opere di fantascienza hard, lo sviluppo dei personaggi in queste storie si pone in secondo piano rispetto alla descrizione di teorie e idee avanzate, come ad esempio la vera natura del Grande Attrattore, delle singolarità nude e la grande battaglia tra forme di vita Barioniche e fotoniche . Esempi di romanzi scritti in questo stile sono: Ring e Infinito .

Le sue storia della Terra al tempo presente sono molto più umane, e i personaggi vengono ritratti con molta più profondità e cura. Indugiano spesso sul "se solo" e sul principio della storia alternativa, immaginando che cosa potrebbe realizzare l'umanità esplorando lo spazio.

Tuttavia, questi romanzi hanno un tono molto più scuro rispetto a quello delle altre sue storie e spesso non ritraggono molta speranza per umanità come specie morale. Esempi di romanzi scritti in questo stile sono: Voyage, vincitore del Sidewise Award for Alternate History; Titan e Moonseed.

Le sue storie dell'"Evoluzione" narrano il successivo sviluppo dell'umanità. Queste storie sembrano avere origini in altri suoi stili di scrittura, come ad esempio quelli di Mammoth e Manifold: Origine. Un esempio di romanzo scritto in questo stile è: Evolution.

Baxter è inoltre autore di numerosi altri stili: le sue storie di Mammoth, apparentemente rivolte ai più piccoli, possono essere molto apprezzate anche da un pubblico adulto, mentre L'incognita tempo è considerato uno dei suoi maggiori romanzi. Ha vinto il John W. Campbell award ed il British SF Award, ed è stato nominato per altri importanti premi di letteratura fantascientifica. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Novembre 1957
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“""… Why Nimrod? Why that name?""
Ramrod straight, he looked down at her. ""I guess you skipped Bible studies at school. Genesis 10, verses 8 to 10: 'And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth… And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and-""
""Babel?""
""It was only generations after the flood of Noah. Chapter 11, verse 4. 'And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.'""
""But God struck them down when they built the tower.""
""Yes. But why? 11, 6. 'Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.' That's what God said about mankind. He feared us, and so He struck us down. We have that verse up on the wall on big banners, to motivate the workforce. 'Nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.'""
""Wow,"" Thandie said. ""You're challenging God?""
""Why the hell not?""”

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Origine: Flood (2008), Chapter 90

“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”

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Origine: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 15, “The world was tired out with geological theories” (p. 153)

“Relentless Pleistocene selection was shaping everything that would make up humanity. Even love was a by-product of evolution. Love, and the pain of loss.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Evolution

Origine: Evolution (2002), Chapter 10 “The Crowded Land” section II (p. 308)

“The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time; and while we listened with earnestness and admiration to the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow.”

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Origine: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 15, “The world was tired out with geological theories” (p. 160)

“Life had always been chancy. And now life had found ways of surviving the ultimate extinction event. In new oceans and on strange lands, evolution had begun again.
But it had nothing to do with mankind.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Evolution

Origine: Evolution (2002), Chapter 19 “A Far Distant Futurity” section III (p. 636)

“Her story was a creation myth, a legend already more than twenty thousand years old. Such tales—which said that Jahna’s people were the pinnacle of creation, that theirs was the only right way, and that all others were less than human—taught the people to care passionately about themselves, their kin, and a few treasured ideals.
But to the exclusion of all other humans, let alone such non-people as the Old Man’s kind.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Evolution

Origine: Evolution (2002), Chapter 13 “Last Contact” section III (p. 432)

“If you were capable of thinking of an object from more than one point of view, you could imagine it doing all sorts of things. For Mother, consciousness was becoming more than just a tool for lying.”

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Origine: Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section I (p. 337)

“In his reliance on evidence, preferably obtained at first hand, Hutton was showing the way to the geological methods of the future.”

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Origine: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 8, “A cursed country where one has to shape everything out of a block” (p. 70)

“It’s all a bit anarchic, I suppose, but it’s also highly effective. Flexible, responsive, mobile, heuristic, with intelligence distributed to the lowest level...A bit like an ideal human society, I suppose; free individuals seeking out ways to advance the common good.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Timelike Infinity

Origine: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 266)

“Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Raft

Origine: Raft (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 158)

“The essential condition for life is the existence of sharp energy gradients.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Raft

Origine: Raft (1991), Chapter 15 (p. 151)

“The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

Origine: Ring (1994), Chapter 35 (p. 891; closing words)

“Maybe we should gather a few more facts before wasting our time speculating.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

Origine: Ring (1994), Chapter 30 (p. 852)

“Maybe it’s time we humans abandoned our species-specific chauvinism—our petty outrage that the Universe has unfolded in a way that doesn’t suit us.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

Origine: Ring (1994), Chapter 27 (p. 825)

“Empty. Barren. These were the true conditions of the Universe, she thought; life, and variety, and energy, were isolated aberrations.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

Origine: Ring (1994), Chapter 18 (p. 743)

“Understanding is the key to turning anything from a threat into an opportunity.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

Origine: Ring (1994), Chapter 17 (p. 736)

“She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or ever, not quite so old.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

Origine: Ring (1994), Chapter 13 (p. 704)

“You know, in principle, why our world is as it is. Isn’t that sufficient? Is it really necessary for you to understand every detail?”

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Stephen Baxter libro Ring

But if I don’t understand, Morrow thought sourly, then you can control me. Arbitrarily. And that’s what I find hard to accept.

Chapter 8 (p. 649)
Ring (1994)

“You’re a damn fool, boy. I want you to know that now, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Flux

Origine: Flux (novel) (1993), Chapter 27 (p. 554)

“But Parz was better than nothing: it offered stability, regulation, a framework to live in. People gripe about their tithes—and nobody’s going to pretend that the Committee gets it right all the time—but most of us would prefer taxes to living wild. With all respect to you, my friend.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Flux

He bit into his cake. “And that’s still true today; as true as it ever was.”

Flux (novel) (1993), Chapter 20 (p. 497)

“But you are a scientist, Michael Poole; and the skill of a scientist is in asking the right question.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Timelike Infinity

Origine: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 218)

“The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Raft

Origine: Raft (1991), Chapter 4 (p. 45)

“There was no cognition he realized. There was only perception.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Vacuum Diagrams

Secret History (p. 350)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

“I’ve made myself a rich man. You shouldn’t assume that makes me a fool.”

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Stephen Baxter libro Vacuum Diagrams

The Quagma Datum (p. 201)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

“Time stretches like a lazy leopard when it wants to.”

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More Than Time or Distance (p. 161)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

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