Time
By: Stephen Baxter
Edition: Paperback edition.
Series: Manifold -- I
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780008134464
Subjects: Twenty-first century; Extinction (Biology); Exploration; Cosmic background radiation; Space mining; Fiction
Description: 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Reid gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they?
Notes: Originally published in 1999.