Название: Space
Автор: Stephen Baxter
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Научная фантастика
isbn: 9780007499793
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STEPHEN BAXTER
SPACE
MANIFOLD 2
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2000
Copyright © Stephen Baxter 2000
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Ebook Edition © November 2012 ISBN 9780007499793 Version: 2015-09-01
To my nephew, Thomas Baxter andSimon Bradshaw and Eric Brown
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
Chapter 13: The Roads of Empire
Chapter 14: Dreams of Ancestral Fish
Chapter 19: Dreams of Rock and Stillness