Phase Space
stories from the manifold and elsewhere
by Stephen Baxter · first published 2002
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Part of the Manifold series.
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Stephen Baxter's Phase Space. If those short stories, especially the ones with Reid Malenfant, grab you, then read the Manifold series. If you find yourself wishing it was more Alastair Reynolds, then the Xeelee Sequence.
on “Autonomous Restructuring of Asteroids into Rotating Space Stations” ↗There's also a short story by Stephen Baxter in Phase Space (a very excellent collection) called Dante Dreams where a researcher becomes aware of the dreaming consciousness of her own organelles.
on “Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth?” ↗Second the short stories. Axiomatic has some great ones too with concepts that really stuck with me. And if you like that, Phase Space by Stephen Baxter feels very similar.
on “My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before” ↗