Stephen Baxter

“And there's no such thing as too much back-up.”

— Stephen Baxter

“Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”

— Stephen Baxter

“A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls...”

— Stephen Baxter

“It got to the point where he didn’t even look up at the sky any more as he blundered back and forth.…

— Stephen Baxter

“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of…

— Stephen Baxter

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we…

— Stephen Baxter

“Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?”

— Stephen Baxter

“We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.”

— Stephen Baxter

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

— Stephen Baxter

“Which one of you’s the bitch?”

— Stephen Baxter

“Every world needed an artist.”

— Stephen Baxter

“...our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.”

— Stephen Baxter

“Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream." Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-”

— Stephen Baxter

“… It was dark. There were no dead stars, no rogue planets. Matter itself had long evaporated, burned up by proton decay,…

— Stephen Baxter

“A brief life burns brightly.”

— Stephen Baxter

“A flower of light pointlessly beautiful.”

— Stephen Baxter

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

— Stephen Baxter

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

— Stephen Baxter

“I am not a man who enjoys such insights into his own character.”

— Stephen Baxter