Manifold Trilogy · Book 3
Origin
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780345430809
- Type
- novel
About this book
Origin is the third installment of the Manifold Trilogy series by Stephen Baxter, published in 2001. At 496 pages, it is a full-length entry in the series. Following Space, it is the newest addition to the series so far. Published in the UK as Manifold: Origin.
Its place in Manifold Trilogy
Origin is book 3 in the Manifold Trilogy series. It follows Space. See the full Manifold Trilogy reading order.
Stephen Baxter's Manifold books take a single premise -- the Fermi Paradox, the unsettling silence where an intelligent, spacefaring galaxy should be -- and run it through three structurally similar but independent novels, each imagining a different answer and a different fate for the same lead character, engineer-turned-astronaut Reid Malenfant. Time (1999) finds Malenfant chasing a signal that suggests humanity is catastrophically alone, and racing to prevent an extinction-level cosmic event. Space (2000)…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345430809
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002257701