Buy this book on-line BAXTER**, STEPHEN: : TIMELIKE INFINITYLONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers/Science Fiction & Fantasy,1993. ISBN 000647618X.
UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.[HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy issue/edn and the true UK,1st edn p/back.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.Not to be confused with the HarperCollins/Voyager later imprint of 1997.Uncredited artwork,but identical to that of the scarce,uncommon UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn of a year earlier, 1992,to this UK p/back issue and entirely different from the later 'Voyager' imprint's artwork.] MINT.Books has been wrapped+protected from day of issue,so no owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial non-credited artwork illustrated front cover with raised gilt author name, raised orange/red lettered title and black lettered critic's (Arthur C. Clarke) quote,white+orange letters to a black spine,red+white lettered story preamble and critics' reviews to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip! Top+fore-edges bright and clean and without toning or blemish; contents similar - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn,7-253pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters; plus [unpaginated] note on author+critics' reviews,title page,a dedication with blank reverse and to the rear,last page with blank reverse and2pp blank following on from the last printed page,
Author's second book and second novel in the Xeelee sequence.The sequels are FLUX (1993) - see my book ID rja918321 for true UK,1st edn p/back - and RING (1994).
First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights,even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless,brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated,the human spirit crushed.Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs.Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time.Made from exotic matter,it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era,where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter.When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel,it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax,who are sure to follow them.For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail.
Michael Poole,architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.The battle for Earth's future begins with colossal violence in the eerie light of Jupiter - and ends at TIMELIKE INFINITY. . . the strange region at the end of time where the owners of the universe,the fabulous Xeelee,are waiting.
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