Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter is an English hard science fiction author born in Liverpool in 1957, with degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University and engineering from Southampton University. Stephen-Baxter.com He taught maths, physics, and IT before becoming a full-time writer in 1995, influenced by H.G. Wells, and is known for ambitious future histories like the Xeelee Sequence spanning billions of years. C. Clarke and Terry Pratchett, and awards like the Seiun and Kurd Lasswitz.