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Stephen Baxter Icebones
Victor Gollancz 2001 0575072148 / 9780575072145 Paperback Very Good
"'() Icebones concludes Stephen Baxter's ''Mammoth'' trilogy about the lives, adventures and rich mythic tradition of mammoths. Silverhair featured a mammoth family surviving in modern times: Longtusk backtracked to the Ice Age: now it's AD 3000 and mammoths roam Mars, the Sky Steppe of their ancient legends... Icebones, daughter of the first book's Silverhair, wakes from suspended animation high up Mons Olympus, the solar system's greatest volcano. Humans (''the Lost'') partly terraformed Mars and seeded it with mammoths, but for their own inscrutable reasons have gone home. Already Icebones's untutored cousins, accustomed to being fed like pets, are beginning to starve. Our heroine's demanding duty is clear. She must make herself Matriarch of the mammoth group, show them how to forage on this alien steppe, pass on the old teaching legends and Just-So stories of mammothdom, and lead her quarrelsome family on an epic trek across the once again dying world, hoping for sanctuary in th'''' ID: mon0000079624"
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"Arthur C.: Baxter, Stephen Clarke" Light Of Other Days
Tor: Tom Doherty Associates 2000 0002247046 / 9780002247047 Hardcover Good
No dust jacket. Cover shows some rubbing and handling.() SF's grand old man Sir Arthur teams up with newer star Baxter to tackle a whopping science-fiction idea with ample scope for both their talents. Their ID: mon0000109866
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Stephen Baxter Long Tusk (Mammoths S.)
Gollancz 2000 0575068582 / 9780575068582 Paperback Very Good
"'() Stephen Baxter's ''Mammoth'' sequence is frequently compared to Watership Down, with woolly mammoths rather than rabbits undertaking heroic quests and spinning their own rich mythology. Silverhair (1999) followed the hardships of a mammoth family that survived into modern times. Now that book's heroine Silverhair remembers the much-embroidered legends of distant ancestor Longtusk, a mammoth who did great deeds as the Ice Age dwindled in 16,000 BC. Of course the real Longtusk doesn't quite match the myth, and we first meet him as a sulkily egotistic 12 year old: He was Longtusk! The greatest hero in the world! Why couldn't anybody see that?Fate has a tricky way of giving you what you want, but the path to heroism is long and painful. Separated from his family group by headstrong folly and then by a fire sweeping over the steppe, Longtusk lives for a while with a fading tribe of Neanderthal ''Dreamers'', only to be enslaved by the dread ''Fireheads'' who have mastered fire--that '''' ID: mon0000080100"
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Stephen Baxter Moonseed
Eos 1998 006105044X / 9780061050442 Hardcover Very Good
"'() Stephen Baxter, the much-lauded author of Voyage and Titan, has been praised as a sci-fi writer who gets the science right. This rigor and research are clearly evident in Moonseed, a tale with high-energy physics and space-travel technology in starring roles. It's Baxter's boyish enthusiasm for science--especially space travel--that makes Moonseed so involving. A world-class disaster epic worthy of any Saturday matinee, Moonseed opens with the spectacular, explosive death of Venus, an event requiring energy a thousand billion times the world's nuclear arsenal. As the radioactive blast from the late Venus reaches Earth, scientists scramble to attribute a cause, with massless black holes and elementary particles the size of bacteria pointing towards some sort of superstring as the smoking gun. The pace quickens when the substance that may have caused the demise of Venus is accidentally introduced to Earth. This substance, dubbed moonseed, acts as a geological lubricant: processes'''' ID: mon0000078634"
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Stephen Baxter Moonseed
Eos 1998 006105044X / 9780061050442 Hardcover Very Good
"'() Stephen Baxter, the much-lauded author of Voyage and Titan, has been praised as a sci-fi writer who gets the science right. This rigor and research are clearly evident in Moonseed, a tale with high-energy physics and space-travel technology in starring roles. It's Baxter's boyish enthusiasm for science--especially space travel--that makes Moonseed so involving. A world-class disaster epic worthy of any Saturday matinee, Moonseed opens with the spectacular, explosive death of Venus, an event requiring energy a thousand billion times the world's nuclear arsenal. As the radioactive blast from the late Venus reaches Earth, scientists scramble to attribute a cause, with massless black holes and elementary particles the size of bacteria pointing towards some sort of superstring as the smoking gun. The pace quickens when the substance that may have caused the demise of Venus is accidentally introduced to Earth. This substance, dubbed moonseed, acts as a geological lubricant: processes'''' ID: mon0000081911"
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