Stephen Baxter

The seas are rising. At first global warming is blamed, but as London, then New York, then entire countries disappear beneath the waves, it is clear that something much worse is happening.

Set 25,000 years from now, 'Exultant' takes mankind into a millennial war for the control of the galaxy itself. A war against the unknown, utterly alien Xeelee. Now the war has reached the galaxy's hot core, the Xeelee stronghold and, impossibly, it seems that a final victory may be at hand.

It's 1066. As King Alfred fights to preserve his fledgling kingdom, once again a mysterious prophecy arises - a prophecy that could change the outcome of the Battle of Hastings and, with it, history. This series brings history to vivid, changeable, life - and asks some tantalising questions about our future.

In 'Proxima' we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. The universe opened up to us. Now in 'Ultima' the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt. And we discover that there are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and they have a plan for us. For some of us. But as we learn the true nature of...

Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole. Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic,...

James Cameron's Avatar is the highest-grossing movie of all time. Now the movie's legendary director has leant his support to an exploration of the world of Pandora, with bestselling science-fiction author Stephen Baxter.