About Stephen Baxter: Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.
In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
A brief life burns brightly.
Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
Through adversity to the stars.
Every world needed an artist.
Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
