Manifold Trilogy · Book 2
Space
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780345430786
- Type
- novel
About this book
Space is the second installment of the Manifold Trilogy series by Stephen Baxter, published in 2000. At 464 pages, it is a full-length entry in the series. Time comes before it, and Origin follows. Published in the UK as Manifold: Space.
Its place in Manifold Trilogy
Space is book 2 in the Manifold Trilogy series. It follows Time. It is followed by Origin. 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 9780345430786
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006511830