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Evolution by Stephen Baxter (2003, Hardcover)
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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-10034545782X
ISBN-139780345457820
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038687071
Product Key Features
Book TitleEvolution
Number of Pages592 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorStephen Baxter
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight29.8 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-031422
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Spectacular . . . What is astonishing is how . . . entertaining as well as informative this book-an episodic novel with evolution as its protagonist-manages to be." -The New York Times Book Review "MAGISTERIAL AND UPLIFTING . . . A brilliant, grand-scale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course." -The Denver Post "Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future." -Times Literary Supplement "A BREATH OF FRESH AIR . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story." -The Washington Post Book World "A work of outrageous ambition. Baxter's goal is nothing less than to dramatize the grand sweep of primate development. . . . Evolution is a cautionary tale, warning of the dire consequences to contemporary humans if we persist in behavior that threatens the survival of our ecosystem." -The New York Times Book Review "Baxter's depictions are brilliant, with some inspired conjectures to spice up events. . . . I highly recommend Evolution. . . . [It] provide[s] food for thought, confronts our notions of what it means to be human, and gives warning that nothing can be taken for granted in the ongoing struggle for survival." -scifi dimensions "Baxter chronicles the epic survival of the mammalian family that ultimately ended up with us. . . . The sheer timescale makes a great story that is panoramic in extent. I felt I was watching Walking with Beasts rolled into The Human Journey. Baxter's ability to turn science into exciting and readable fiction makes him one of the most accessible SF writers around." -The Times (London) "The overall narrative [is] a big, thick, geophysical stick upside the head to remind us all that things can change, at any moment, for any reason." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "I recommend this novel to anyone who appreciates novels that take chances. . . . Baxter is not shy about painting big pictures about big ideas. . . . [He] painstakingly moves us from the shrewlike creatures that coexisted with the dinosaurs through the walking, tool-using hominids of Africa, through Neanderthals, through humans, to an entirely speculative future that is beyond brief description." -sfrevu.com "A powerful fusion of science and imagination . . . Baxter makes an impressive job of putting flesh on to the bones of the scientific theory and in its imaginative vision Evolution deserves comparison with SF epics such as Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men or Alfred Doblin's Mountains, Seas, and Giants. Baxter leaves you with a memorable yet unsettling sense of our insignificance in the scheme of things. In the story of evolution, as in all good thrillers, an extinction event is always lurking just around the corner." -The Guardian (London) "A tour-de-force . . . A sprawling, ambitious chronicle spanning millennia . . . The account of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction and the rise of mammals as the dominant life-form is particularly fascinating. . . . Similarly well crafted is Baxter's projection of a posthuman future." -Booklist "T, "Spectacular . . . What is astonishing is how . . . entertaining as well as informative this book-an episodic novel with evolution as its protagonist-manages to be." -The New York Times Book Review "MAGISTERIAL AND UPLIFTING . . . A brilliant, grand-scale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course." -The Denver Post "Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future." -Times Literary Supplement "A BREATH OF FRESH AIR . . . The miracle ofEvolutionis that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story." -The Washington Post Book World "A work of outrageous ambition. Baxter's goal is nothing less than to dramatize the grand sweep of primate development. . . .Evolutionis a cautionary tale, warning of the dire consequences to contemporary humans if we persist in behavior that threatens the survival of our ecosystem." -The New York Times Book Review "Baxter's depictions are brilliant, with some inspired conjectures to spice up events. . . . I highly recommendEvolution. . . . [It] provide[s] food for thought, confronts our notions of what it means to be human, and gives warning that nothing can be taken for granted in the ongoing struggle for survival." -scifi dimensions "Baxter chronicles the epic survival of the mammalian family that ultimately ended up with us. . . . The sheer timescale makes a great story that is panoramic in extent. I felt I was watchingWalking with Beastsrolled intoThe Human Journey. Baxter's ability to turn science into exciting and readable fiction makes him one of the most accessible SF writers around." -The Times(London) "The overall narrative [is] a big, thick, geophysical stick upside the head to remind us all that things can change, at any moment, for any reason." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "I recommend this novel to anyone who appreciates novels that take chances. . . . Baxter is not shy about painting big pictures about big ideas. . . . [He] painstakingly moves us from the shrewlike creatures that coexisted with the dinosaurs through the walking, tool-using hominids of Africa, through Neanderthals, through humans, to an entirely speculative future that is beyond brief description." -sfrevu.com "A powerful fusion of science and imagination . . . Baxter makes an impressive job of putting flesh on to the bones of the scientific theory and in its imaginative visionEvolutiondeserves comparison with SF epics such as Olaf Stapledon'sLast and First Menor Alfred Doblin'sMountains, Seas, and Giants. Baxter leaves you with a memorable yet unsettling sense of our insignificance in the scheme of things. In the story of evolution, as in all good thrillers, an extinction event is always lurking just around the corner." -The Guardian(London) "A tour-de-force . . . A sprawling, ambitious chronicle spanning millennia . . . The account of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction and the rise of mammals as the dominant life-form is particularly fascinating. . . . Similarly well crafted is Baxter's projection of a posthuman future." -Booklist "Taking a page fr
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SynopsisIt's the job of a science fiction writer to visualize extrapolations of the future. But there are those who go far beyond, venturing into realms of breathtaking science. That kind of cutting edge talent is as rare as a supernova-and, in its own way, just as powerful. Arthur C. Clarke had it. So did William Gibson. Now, withEvolution, Stephen Baxter delivers what is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year-and shows once again why he belongs among the select company of science fiction writers who matter. Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars,Evolutionis a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival, a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the speciesPurgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate? A generation from today, a group of concerned scientists-distant descendants of that primitivePurgatorius-gathers on a remote island to discuss this very question. The ceaseless expansion of human civilization has triggered an urgent environmental crisis that must be solved now if the Earth is to survive as a place hospitable to human life. But just when a peaceful solution seems within reach, two acts of shocking violence set in motion a cataclysmic chain of events that will expose the limitations of human intellect and adaptability in the face of the blind and implacable processes of Darwin's dangerous idea.
LC Classification NumberPR6052.A849E94 2003
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