Interview: Stephen Baxter
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t looks like 1996 is shaping up to be the Year of Stephen Baxter. His sixth published novel, The Time Ships, won the John W. Campbell Award for best novel of the year and is also on the final ballot for the Hugo award. Like most of his work, The Time Ships is hard science fiction on an epic scale, filled with gigantic structures, intergalactic civilizations and time travel.

Baxter began his writing career with "The Xeelee Flower" (Interzone 1986), and continues to publish outstanding short fiction such as "Gossamer," which originally appeared in Science Fiction Age and was included in Year's Best SF, edited by David Hartwell. Baxter's first novel, Raft, published in 1991, is also set in the Xeelee universe, which he continues to explore in the novels Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring.

A Ph.D. in mathematics, Baxter has taken advantage of his success and recently quit his job in information technology to write full time in Buckinghamshire, England. Forthcoming novels include Voyage (November 1996) and Titan.

Next issue Science Fiction Weekly will sit down with Baxter to discuss his career, his recent success and his plans for the future. As always we are letting our readers ask all the questions, so if you have anything you'd like to ask Baxter, please use the form below:

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