Timelike Infinity is a 1992 science fiction book by British author Stephen Baxter. The second book in the Xeelee Sequence, Timelike Infinity introduces a universe of powerful alien species and technologies that manages to maintain a realistic edge because of Baxter's physics background. It largely sets the stage for the magnum opus of the Xeelee Sequence, Ring.
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Stephen Baxter is an English hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.
Baxter at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, 2005.
Stephen Baxter at the Science-Fiction-Tage NRW in Dortmund, Germany, March 1997