{"id":1293,"date":"2026-01-03T21:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/lakes-of-light-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:23:39","slug":"lakes-of-light-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/lakes-of-light-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakes of Light – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Hartwell, David – Year’s Best SF 11 (2006)<\/i><\/p>\n

Stephen Baxter (tribute site: www.themanifold.co.uk) lives in Morpeth, England. He is now one of<\/i> the big names in SF, with more than twenty SF novels published to date, and a large body of short<\/i> fiction. “I always thought of myself as writing hard SF, on a big scale maybe, but ideas driven,<\/i> not romantic, so not space opera,” he says. <\/i> The Science Fiction Encyclopedia summarizes his early<\/i> career thus: “He began publishing SF with “The Xeelee Flower” for<\/i> Interzone in 1987, which with<\/i> most of his other short work fits into his Xeelee Sequence, an ambitious attempt at creating a<\/i> Future History; novels included in the sequence are<\/i> Raft (1989), <\/i> Timelike Infinity (7992), Flux (1993), and<\/i> Rind (1994). The sequence\u2026 follows humanity into interstellar space, where it<\/i> encounters a complex of alien races; the long epic ends (being typical in this of UK SF) darkly,<\/i> many aeons hence.” Since the mid 1990s he has produced five or ten short stories a year in<\/i> fantasy, SF, and horror venues, occasionally one in the Xeelee Sequence, and did in 2005 again. <\/i><\/p>\n

“Lakes of Light” was published in<\/i> Constellations. It is a Xeelee story of alien supertechnology,<\/i> somewhere between a Hal Clement and a Larry Niven setting. As the story progresses, new<\/i> wonders are seen and new layers of insight are reached. This is the essence of hard SF<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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