The Thousand Earths

Stephen Baxter

Sep 2022 · Sold by Gollancz

About this ebook

In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning.

In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close.

Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about the challenges which are coming.

A mission which will take him five million years to complete.

Not only is Hackett exploring unknown space, but he will return to a vastly different time.

Mela's world is coming to an end. Erosion is eating away at the edges of every landmass - first at a rate of ten metres a year, but fast accelerating, displacing people and animals as the rising Tide destroys everything in its path. Putting more and more pressure on the people - and resources - which remain.

She and her people have always known that this long-predicted end to their home, one of the Thousand Earths, is coming - but that makes their fight to survive, to protect each other, no less desperate . . . and no less doomed.

A beautiful, page-turning story which interweaves the tale of these two characters, separated by both space and time, in a hopeful exploration of humanities' future, this is Stephen Baxter at his best.

Ratings and reviews

Interesting..... enough to read more by Mr Baxter. Any author who has co-written with Terry Pratchett (genius satirical humor) in addition to his own well written works is a gift to readers.

"The Thousand Earths" is excellent. It reminds me of the sense of mind expansion of reading Baxter's Manifold series. The Manifolds were my introduction to Stephen Baxter. Along with this book, I recommend the Manifold series and his other works. He makes the reader an observer, a witness, to cosmological-scaled stories of spacetime, multi-dimensional, multi-universal events and profound human adventures.

if you tried to bore yourself to death, you couldn't do as well as this clunker.

About the author

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. With Terry Pratchett he has co-authored the Long Earth novels. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.


Visit Stephen Baxter's website at www.stephen-baxter.com.