Origin

by StephenBaxter (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $3.23

  Concluding the epic Manifold series that began with TIME and continued with SPACE: the adventures of the maverick astronaut Reid Malenfant bring him at last to the beginning of everything. NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying a military jet over Africa when a vast electric-blue circle appears in the air - and the Red Moon dramatically replaces our ancient, cherished moon. Malenfant's plane is destroyed as he chases the alien circle of light. Though Malenfant survives, his wife Emma is swept up and hurled towards the Red Moon. Through the months of floods and earthquakes that follow Malenfant singlemindedly lobbies for a moonshot to rescue her. He's heading for the Red Moon where time and space converge, the origin of the manifold.

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  Hardcover
  2001

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  At last Malenfant gets to kick-start his own universe in this final volume of the Manifold series. The Fermi Paradox concerning extraterrestrials runs: If they existed the would be here. Since they are not here, they don't exist. In TIME, in a universe empty of other sentient beings, Malenfant discovered the aberrant development that led to humanity's uniqueness, our sole occupation of space. Then, incredibly, he changed everything, with the aid of the Blue Children from the future. In SPACE, aliens were everywhere but they were just arriving in the Solar System. And the same Fermi Paradox unravelled to reveal that all life in the universe is temporary: the aliens and life on Earth are periodically wiped out, only to start over, and over, and over. In ORIGIN, our astronaut hero has the chance to reach out to where both universes cross, their origin, and at last make sense of life on Earth and elsewhere.