Author: Stephen Baxter

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• NULL (4)
  • IN: Proxima (2013) Fiction, Science , British
    EPIGRAPH: In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds- Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse- In the chthonic silence- Minds diffuse and antique dreamed the Dream of End Time.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Ultima (2014) Fiction, Science, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds- Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse- In the chthonic silence- There was satisfaction. The network of mind continued to push out into space, from the older stars, the burned-out worlds, to the young out across the galaxy. Pushed deep in time too, twisting the fate of countless trillions of lives. But time was short, and ever shorter. In the Dream of the End Time, there was a note of urgency.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Weaver (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As mapped by myself; in which the long warp threads are the history of the whole world; and the wefts which run from selvedge to selvedge are distortions of that history, deflected by a Weaver unknown; be he human, divine or satanic…
    FROM: Friar geoffrey Cotesford of York, (2008), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Science of Avatar (2012) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “What lab experience do you have?” “I dissected a frog once.”
    FROM: Dr. Augustine, Grace and Jake, Sully in Avatar, (2009), Film, US
• Percival Lowell (1)
  • IN: The Massacre of Mankind (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and that resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the host of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to find any number of cousins scattered through space.
    FROM: Mars, (1985), NULL, US
• Walter Jenkins (1)
  • IN: The Massacre of Mankind (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It seemed to me that humanity was on the verge of a deep apprehension of its place in the cosmos. The intellectual world was alive with speculation and hope. Then the Martians came again.
    FROM: Narratives of the Martian Wars, (1928), NULL, US
• Charles Darwin (1)
  • IN: Evolution (2002) Novel, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity.
    FROM: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, (1859), Book, UK
• Giordano Bruno (1)
  • IN: Manifold: Space (2000) Novel, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Innumerable Suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these Suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds…
    FROM: NULL, (1600), NULL, Italy
• Enrico Fermi (1)
  • IN: Manifold: Space (2000) Novel, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If they existed, they would be here.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Henri Poincaré (1)
  • IN: The Light of Other Days (2000) Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Stephen Baxter (2)
  • IN: Exultant (2004) Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But we have a Galaxy to win first.
    FROM: The Doctrines of Hama Druz (5408 C.E.; Year Zero of the Third Expansion of Mankind, (2004), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Navigator (2007) Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Testament of Eadgyth of York: (Lines revealed in AD 1070) In the last days To the tail of the peacock He will come: The spider's spawn, the Christ-bearer The Dove. And the Dove will fly east, Wings strong, heart stout, mind clear. God's Engines will burn our ocean And flame across the lands of spices. All this I have witnessed I and my mothers. Send the Dove west! O, send him west! (Lines revealed in AD 1481) The Dragon stirs from his eastern throne, Walks west. The Feathered Serpent, plague-hardened, Flies over ocean sea, Flies east. Serpent and Dragon, the mortal duel And Serpent feasts on holy flesh. All this I have witnessed I and my mothers. Send the Dove west! O, send him west!
    FROM: The 'Indendium Dei' cryptogram: the 'Engines of God' Codex of Aethelmaer of Malmesbury, c. AD 1000, (2007), Fictional, NULL

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• Stephen Baxter (2)
  • IN: Exultant (2004) Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But we have a Galaxy to win first.
    FROM: The Doctrines of Hama Druz (5408 C.E.; Year Zero of the Third Expansion of Mankind, (2004), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Navigator (2007) Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Testament of Eadgyth of York: (Lines revealed in AD 1070) In the last days To the tail of the peacock He will come: The spider's spawn, the Christ-bearer The Dove. And the Dove will fly east, Wings strong, heart stout, mind clear. God's Engines will burn our ocean And flame across the lands of spices. All this I have witnessed I and my mothers. Send the Dove west! O, send him west! (Lines revealed in AD 1481) The Dragon stirs from his eastern throne, Walks west. The Feathered Serpent, plague-hardened, Flies over ocean sea, Flies east. Serpent and Dragon, the mortal duel And Serpent feasts on holy flesh. All this I have witnessed I and my mothers. Send the Dove west! O, send him west!
    FROM: The 'Indendium Dei' cryptogram: the 'Engines of God' Codex of Aethelmaer of Malmesbury, c. AD 1000, (2007), Fictional, NULL