Stephen Baxter

British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1957 · age 68

Stephen Baxter is an English hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.

Stephen Baxter is read about 221 times a day, in 31 languages.

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2023Honorary DoctorateAward2016“I know the military. The sooner they can kick a problem upstairs the happier they will be.”In their wordsApril 2016Chapter 10 (p. 67)Read the whole statement

“We underestimated the vindictiveness of mankind. Their retrospective tribunals. Their visiting of punishments on the children of the perpetrators. They never forgave us.”In their wordsApril 2016Chapter 43 (p. 292)Read the whole statement

“In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds / Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse - / In the chthonic silence - / All that could have been done had been done.”In their wordsApril 2016Epilogue (p. 513)Read the whole statement

2015“It was always the same with engineers, Stef had observed; nothing made them happier than to be given a well-defined and achievable task, and to be left alone to get on with it.”In their wordsAugust 2015Chapter 38 (p. 204)Read the whole statement

2010“We all project our petty lives upon the universe.”In their wordsp. 157Read the whole statement

2008“...Why Nimrod? Why that name?" Ramrod straight, he looked down at her. "I guess you skipped Bible studies at school.”In their wordsChapter 90Read the whole statement

2004BSFA Award for Best Short FictionAward2000Locus Award for Best NoveletteAwardPhilip K. Dick AwardAward1999Bob Morane award for best foreign novelAward1997BSFA Award for Best Short FictionAwardPhilip K. Dick AwardAward1996John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAwardSidewise Award for Alternate HistoryAward1995BSFA Award for Best NovelAward1957Born13 November 1957

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Stephen Baxter at the Science-Fiction-Tage NRW in Dortmund, Germany, March 1997

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Stephen Baxter

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Ah, Mardina. Evidently you entirely lack imagination. You’ll go far in the Navy.
April 2016 · Chapter 23 (p. 167), Own words
Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.
April 2016 · Chapter 49 (p. 325), Own words
She was doing well with her schooling, scoring high in mathematics, sciences and deductive abilities, as well as in physical prowess and leadership skills.
August 2015 · Chapter 4 (p. 22), Own words