
Baxter is often regarded as Clarke’s successor in the world of science-fiction writing, while his other influences include H.G. This includes several sequences: the Xeelee sequence the Manifold Trilogy the Mammoth Trilogy the Destiny’s Children sequence the Time’s Tapestry series, and the Time Odyssey trilogy which he co-authored with Arthur C. Stephen Baxter, one of Britain’s leading science-fiction authors, is an incredibly prolific writer, producing almost 50 works in less than two decades. The latest in the Xeelee series, Endurance, was published in 2015. He has co-authored four books with the late Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth (2012), The Long War (2013), The Long Mars (2014) and The Long Utopia (2015). Stephen Baxter's second collection of short fiction is Traces (1998), and he has also published the non-fiction books Deep Future (2001), Omegatropic (2001) and Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World (2003), a study of the geologist James Hutton. Clarke, including The Light of Other Days (2000), Time's Eye (2004) and Firstborn (2007). He has also co-authored books with Arthur C. He is also the author of two further series, the Mammoth series and the Xeelee sequence, the latter comprising his first novel, Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Flux (1993) and Ring (1994), and a collection of short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997).

His books include the Manifold sequence: Time (1999), Space (2000) and Origin (2001), and a collection of short stories, Phase Space (2002). He has written many science fiction novels and short stories, including the award-winning Time Ships (1995), the authorised sequel to HG Wells's The Time Machine. He became a teacher of mathematics and physics, and worked in information technology for some years, before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool in 1957 and studied maths at Cambridge University and engineering at Southampton University.
