Manifold by Stephen Baxter (2000, Hardcover)

If you are a Steven Baxter fan than you know his writing style and have grown to like it.

In this new series (Manifold: 1 Time, 2 Space, 3 Origin) Baxter takes you on a journey through three different Time/Space journeys.

Book one, Manifold: Time, is about a wealthy businessman, Reid Malenfant, who has lofty goals of where humans should be in the Universe. He sets about to revive a crippled space industry by launching a probe to the asteroid belt to establish two goals, (1) to make himself even wealthier by mining the minerals and metals on the asteroids, and (2) to begin his goal of moving mankind off the earth and into space exploration.

Manifold: Time uses many theories that have been suggested by leading scientists as it's basis and Baxter takes these theories and leads his readers to a workable use of those theories.

Manifold: Time is another great book by Baxter and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read about science and science fiction.

Rated 5 of 5 for an interesting story line and for great writing.

While the books appear to be stand-alone novels that have a similar story line, I do suggest you read all three books in order so you get the full meaning that Baxter intended when he wrote them.