{"id":1271,"date":"2026-01-03T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/children-of-time-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:22:40","slug":"children-of-time-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/children-of-time-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Time – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Short Story from Gardner Dozois – The Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection<\/i> (2006)<\/i><\/p>\n

Stephen Baxter tells us his “big news is that we moved house last year, to a National Park in<\/i> Northumberland, near the Scottish border.” Stephen’s next novel, _Transcendent _(Del Rey,<\/i> December 2005), is his third in the Destiny’s Children series, and _Sunstorm_, a follow-up to<\/i> _Time’s Eye _written with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, will be out from Del Rey early next year. <\/i><\/p>\n

It was the end of the day, and a huge sunset was staining the sky. Alone, restless, he walked a few paces away from the rich smoky pall, away from the smell of broiling raccoon meat and bubbling goat fat, the languid talk of the adults, the eager play of the children. <\/p>\n

The ice was always there on the northern horizon, always out of reach no matter how hard you walked across the scrubby grassland. He knew why. The ice cap was retreating, dumping its pure whiteness into the meltwater streams, exposing land crushed and gouged and strewn with vast boulders. So while you walked toward it, the ice was marching away from you. <\/p>\n

And now the gathering sunset was turning the distant ice pink. The clean geometric simplicity of the landscape drew his soul; he stared, entranced. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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