Phase Space

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Stephen Baxter. Phase Space

STEPHEN BAXTER. PHASE SPACE. STORIES FROM THE MANIFOLD. AND ELSEWHERE

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PROLOGUE

MOON-CALF

OPEN LOOPS

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GLASS EARTH, INC

POYEKHALI 3201

DANTE DREAMS

WAR BIRDS

September 1997:

WORLDS

SUN-DRENCHED

MARTIAN AUTUMN

SUN GOD

SUN-CLOUD

MANIFOLD

SHEENA 5

THE FUBAR SUIT

GREY EARTH

HUDDLE

PARADOX

REFUGIUM

LOST CONTINENT

TRACKS

LINES OF LONGITUDE

BARRIER

MARGINALIA

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THE WE WHO SING

THE GRAVITY MINE

SPINDRIFT

TOUCHING CENTAURI

THE TWELFTH ALBUM

AFTERWORD

If you enjoyed Phase Space, check out these other great Stephen Baxter titles

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Anyhow, his new eyes showed him a blue world, the landscape softly pulsing, with Greenberg’s NASA-style space station hab module stuck stubbornly to the side under its crust of regolith, like a leech clinging to flesh. Ra was just water now, encased by some smart membrane that held the whole thing in place and collected solar energy and regulated temperature and stuff. It looked like a little clone of Earth, in fact, and Greenberg thought it was somehow appropriate that today that tired, depopulated old Earth itself was over somewhere the far side of the sun, invisible, forgotten, the last traces of man being scraped off by the returned glaciers.

Under the pulsing surface of Ra he could make out dark brown shapes, graceful and lithe: people, Weissmans, whole schools of them flipping around the interior. And now here came a child, wriggling up to the membrane, pushing its disturbingly human face up to the wall, peering out – with curiosity or indifference, he couldn’t tell which – at the stars. It broke his unreconstructed twentieth-century heart to see that little girl’s face stuck on the end of such a fat, unnatural body.

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