Origin

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Stephen Baxter. Origin

STEPHEN BAXTER. ORIGIN. MANIFOLD 3

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DEDICATION

CONTENTS

PREFACE. Emma Stoney:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

1 WHEEL. Reid Malenfant:

Fire:

Emma Stoney:

Fire:

Emma Stoney:

Fire:

Emma Stoney:

Fire:

Emma Stoney:

Fire:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Fire:

2 RED MOON. Emma Stoney:

Shadow:

Emma Stoney:

Shadow:

Emma Stoney:

Shadow:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Fire:

Reid Malenfant:

Fire:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Fire:

Reid Malenfant:

Fire:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

3 HOMINIDS. Manekatopokanemahedo:

Joshua:

Shadow:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Shadow:

Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Joshua:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Shadow:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Reid Malenfant:

Joshua:

Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Emma Stoney:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Joshua:

Shadow:

Joshua:

Shadow:

Joshua:

Shadow:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Reid Malenfant:

Emma Stoney:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Emma Stoney:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Emma Stoney:

4 WORLD ENGINE. Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Reid Malenfant:

Shadow:

Reid Malenfant:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Shadow:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Shadow:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Shadow:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Emma Stoney:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Emma Stoney:

5 MANIFOLD. Emma Stoney:

Mary:

Emma Stoney:

Manekatopokanemahedo:

Shadow:

Emma Stoney:

Maxie:

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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To my nephew, William Baxter

Title Page

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But there was more than geology up there. On the Red Moon, it appeared, there was life.

The air was Earthlike, containing around a sixth oxygen – a smaller proportion than Earth’s atmosphere, but difficult to explain away by non-living processes. It hadn’t taken long to establish that the green-grey pigment that stained the fringes of the supercontinent and its wider river valleys, as well as the shallower sections of the world ocean, was chlorophyll, the green of plants. There were other fingerprints of a living world: an excess of methane in the air, for example, put there perhaps by bacteria in bogs, or burning vegetation, or even the farts of Moon-calves. Though some scientists remained sceptical – and though nobody could say for sure if the Red Moon harboured anything like bogs or bacteria or cows – most people seemed to concur that there was indeed life on the Red Moon, life of some sort.

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