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Like most Stephen Baxter books, this series doesn't lend to small themes. Rather, it covers large expanses of human growth from the far past to the far flung future. Unfortunately this set of books is not really a series. Each book can be enjoyed seperately in any order, but if you read them back to back expecting a linear story line, you will be disappointed. These are three seperate books, about seperate themes, revolving around the same cast of characters (think alternate realities here). Stephen Baxter also does nothing new with these books if you have read his more contemporary books (Ring, Evolution, Transcendence, etc ...). Or rather, you can see the basis for those books in this series. Ultimately of you are a Stephen Baxter fan, you are probably a fan for his far reaching epic looks at humanity and humanity's place in the cosmos as well as his pension for shoe horning cutting edge physics theory into plausible sci-fi. In this regard you will not be disappointed. If you are new to Stephen Baxter and are looking for a space drama, or in depth character building and in depth story telling, this is probably not the author for you. This particular book (Manifold: Time) was my favorite of the three.Read full review
If you are a Steven Baxter fan than you know his writing style and have grown to like it. In this new series (Manifold: 1 Time, 2 Space, 3 Origin) Baxter takes you on a journey through three different Time/Space journeys. Book one, Manifold: Time, is about a wealthy businessman, Reid Malenfant, who has lofty goals of where humans should be in the Universe. He sets about to revive a crippled space industry by launching a probe to the asteroid belt to establish two goals, (1) to make himself even wealthier by mining the minerals and metals on the asteroids, and (2) to begin his goal of moving mankind off the earth and into space exploration. Manifold: Time uses many theories that have been suggested by leading scientists as it's basis and Baxter takes these theories and leads his readers to a workable use of those theories. Manifold: Time is another great book by Baxter and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read about science and science fiction. Rated 5 of 5 for an interesting story line and for great writing. While the books appear to be stand-alone novels that have a similar story line, I do suggest you read all three books in order so you get the full meaning that Baxter intended when he wrote them.Read full review
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