Space. Stephen Baxter

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Название Space
Автор произведения Stephen Baxter
Жанр Научная фантастика
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Издательство Научная фантастика
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      STEPHEN BAXTER

      SPACE

      MANIFOLD 2

       COPYRIGHT

      HarperVoyager an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2000

      Copyright © Stephen Baxter 2000

      Cover image of Calabi-yau manifold © Laguna Design/Getty Images

       Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Stephen Baxter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008134471

       Ebook Edition © November 2012 ISBN 9780007499793 Version: 2015-09-01

       DEDICATION

       To my nephew, Thomas Baxter andSimon Bradshaw and Eric Brown

       EPIGRAPH

      Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths

      revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds …

      GIORDANO BRUNO (1548–1600)

      If they existed, they would be here.

      ENRICO FERMI (1901–1954)

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 10: Travels

       Chapter 11: Anomalies

       Chapter 12: Sister Planet

       Chapter 13: The Roads of Empire

       Chapter 14: Dreams of Ancestral Fish

       Chapter 15: Colonists

       Chapter 16: Icosahedral God

       Chapter 17: Lessons

       Part III: Trenchworks

       Chapter 18: Moon Rain

       Chapter 19: Dreams of Rock and Stillness

       Chapter 20: The Tunnel in The Moon

       Chapter 21: Homecoming

       Chapter 22: Triton Dreamtime

       Chapter 23: Cannonball

       Part IV: Bad News From The Stars

       Chapter 24: Kintu’s Children

       Chapter 25: Wanpamba’s Tomb