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DEEP FUTURE takes you on dazzling ride to the limits of time and space. Along the way Stephen Baxter looks at our place in the universe, considers the possibility that we are in fact alone, and wonders whether that fact gives us the right to inherit everything. He also looks at how we might... read more
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First Sentence edit
Einstein was right: the future rushes toward us relentlessly, a minute every minute, without cease or pity.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Part One: A Dangerous Century
1 The Onrushing Future
2 Past and Future
3 The Limits of Foresight
4 The Transforming Gadget
5 Doom Soon?
Part Two: Into That Silent Sea
6 The Stranded Moonwalker
7 Obsolete Dreams
8 Heaven and Earth
9 The Cruellest Sea
Part Three: Sister Worlds
10 Dry as Toast
11 The Hidden Ocean
12 Arid Mars
13 Children of Sun
14 Sky Diamonds
15 The Mighty Thirst
16 The Last Refuge
Part Four: Pilots of the Purple Twilight
17 An Ocean of Suns
18 Stellar Argosies
19 Strangers in a Strange Land
20 Galaxy for Sale
21 Innumerable Earths
22 The Silent Stars
Part Five: Deep Future
23 The Black Hole Miners
24 A Universe in Ruins
25 After Man
Further Reading
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen Baxter (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Gollancz
Country: England
Publication Date: January 2001
ISBN: 0575071958
Page Count: 215
Publisher: Gollancz
Country: England
Publication Date: January 2001
ISBN: 0575071958
Page Count: 215
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: QB981 .B366 2001
- Dewey: 523.1
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Astronomy › Astronomy
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Baxter, Stephen
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Astronomy › Cosmology
- Books › Science › Physics › Cosmology
- Books › Science › Astronomy › Astronomy
- Books › Science › Astronomy › Cosmology
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction
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