Flux - Softcover

Baxter, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061008370 ISBN 13: 9780061008375

Publisher: HarperPaperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

A race of microscopic beings, who were genetically engineered to survive on the turbulent mantle of a neutron star and who vividly remember their superbeing creators, prepare for the biggest family reunion in history. Reprint.

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Review:

'Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded in doing it, but very few others. Now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks -- writing science fiction in which the science is right, the author knowledgeable, and the extrapolations a sheer pleasure to read, admire, enjoy. The reaction is that which C.S. Lewis referred to when he described science fiction as the only genuine consciousness-expanding drug. Flux is a highly imaginative and moving novel .. It is a rare thing to find such a good read. Wonderful stuff!' Harry Harrison, New Scientist 'Flux puts Stephen Baxter in the front line of world-spinners.' The Times

From the Back Cover:

It should be impossible for human beings to live within the mantle of a star ... but they do. The biology of these microscopic Star humans is bizarre, but their hopes and fears, and loves, are not. And the future of humans everywhere, on Earth and among the stars, depends on their courage in the face of attack by the mighty Xeelee, owners of the Universe ...

“Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded in doing it, but very few others. Now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks – writing science fiction in which the science is right and the extrapolations a sheer pleasure to read, admire, enjoy. The reaction is that which C.S. Lewis referred to when he described science fiction as the only genuine consciousness expanding drug. 'Flux' is a highly imaginative and moving novel ... It is a rare thing to find such a good read. Wonderful stuff!”
HARRY HARRISON, 'New Scientist'

“Stephen Baxter can work out superhard-SF environments with the best of them ... he has a stunning talent”
LOCUS

“Baxter is destined to be one of the genre leaders for the Nineties”
STARBURST

“A highly original plot, well written and exciting”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPaperbacks
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0061008370
• ISBN 13: 9780061008375
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416