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Manifold: Origin Free FREE MANIFOLD: ORIGIN PDF Stephen Baxter | 544 pages | 01 Jan 2003 | Random House USA Inc | 9780345430809 | English | New York, United States Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter: | : Books See more about Manifold: Origin book on Archive. Part of the Manifold series. Previews available in: English. Add Manifold: Origin edition? Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help? Learn about the virtual Library Leaders Forum happening this month. Manifold: Origin Stephen Baxter ultima. Borrow Listen. Want to Manifold: Origin. Download for print-disabled. Check nearby libraries Library. Share this book Facebook. Last edited by Lisa. November 3, History. An edition of Origin Subjects Fiction, science fiction, general. OriginRandom House. Not in Library. Manifold: Origin January 1,Del Rey. Manifold: OriginBallantine Books. Manifold: Origin February 12,Del Rey. Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition. Origin Manifold August 5,Voyager. 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While desperately searching to discover what happened to the woman he loves, Malenfant embarks upon an adventure to the very fount of human development. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published January 1st by Del Rey Books first published More Details Original Title. Reid MalenfantEmma Stoney. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Manifoldplease sign up. Shiladitya Ghosh Nope. The three stories are not tied to each other in that way. See 2 questions about Manifold…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Manifold: Origin. Aug 28, David H. Friedman rated it did not like it. Spuriously violent and gory. Uninteresting Grand Concept. Quite a letdown after the first Manifold: Origin novels in the Manifold: Origin, which were very good. View 2 comments. There's a decent book in here somewhere: Have you ever been a good portion of the way through a book and been faced with the total certainty that it's not going anywhere. And yet, you've invested so much time in it that you feel silly not bothering to finish it and besides, it's not that bad. It's just not great. This was the situation I found myself in reading this book and true to form I did finish reading it only to find that the book was merely okay. Manifold: Origin good, certainly not great, but just " There's a decent book in here somewhere: Have you ever been a good portion of the way through a book and been faced with the total certainty that it's not going anywhere. Not good, certainly not great, but just "okay. This is the third and presumably last book in the "Manifold" trilogy, which so far has been a loose consortium of absolutely fascinating hard science ideas held together by fitfully entertaining plots. The stories may not have been nail-biters but the cosmic vision kept you coming back and made the experience memorable, although you won't achieve any kind of transcendence reading these. But they were fun, for what they were. Then we get to this book. Manifold: Origin now, we know the drill, as Baxter reboots everything again and gives us the characters we've seen before, but in different Manifold: Origin. This time our hero Reid Malfenant is back with his wife still alive, Emma sat out the last Manifold: Origin due to death, so it's nice to have her along and as usual he's ticking off NASA. But the book sets up its premise early on, as a weird red moon replaces the actual moon in the sky, Manifold: Origin scooping up a bunch of people along the way. Emma winds up being one of those people and Reid throws together a mad gambit to Manifold: Origin up Manifold: Origin and rescue her and bring her back. Looking back, I'm not quite Manifold: Origin where the book went off the rails. The red moon, for whatever reason, contains a wide variety of hominid species all living together and while this should be the central mystery, Baxter Manifold: Origin absolutely nowhere with it for a long, long time. He sets up the whole weird society well enough, and integrates the people who have been picked up in previous trips, but the plot just Manifold: Origin of shambles along. Emma wanders around with other survivors. Reid attempts to get up there. Various other peoples with one Manifold: Origin names and simple narrative style jump in Manifold: Origin to spice things up without really adding anything to the overall story. Once in a while someone decides to sit up and ask, "Just what the heck is this here moon for? Page upon page deal with people just wandering around, or beating each other up, or foraging for food, or engaging in acts that I really can't describe here, to no real purpose, it seems. Subplots feel tacked on and Baxter fumbles his money shot with the ending, which is generally the place where he dazzles us Manifold: Origin his knowledge of science and his interpretation of whatever wild theory he's been reading up on. In the first two books, his grand visions made up for any shortcoming in plot. This time out, it falls Manifold: Origin and the grand speculations and revelations just don't seem to have any impact, it's all stated so matter Manifold: Origin factly and sort of repeats something Manifold: Origin happened in another book that it's like reading people discussing a scientific paper, which is the opposite effect the previous books had on me. In his defense, Manifold: Origin going with "time" and "space, it's probably hard to figure out something to top that, so I Manifold: Origin give him credit for trying. And in the end he gives it the ol' college try, it's never less than readable and although I doubt it'll ever be anywhere remotely near my favorite book it was a pleasant reading experience, if a bit overlong. So you can decide if the author was Manifold: Origin biting off more than he could chew or just executing it poorly. And although your milage may vary, if you've read the other two Manifold books it's worth a shot at least, you might as well finish it and besides, you might like it more than I did. Anything's possible. Sep 22, J Manifold: Origin it did not like it. The third in the series, this ones sees Reid Malenfant and Emma Stoney come across a blue circle floating above Africa. But this time it's Emma who ends up falling through it and having most of the adventure, although Malenfant is determined to find her. Emma arrives on a the surface of a new moon, one that has Manifold: Origin appeared above the Earth. And living on the Earth are all sorts of hominids that humans have evolved from or could have evolved into. The book takes some of the best ideas from s The third in the series, this ones sees Reid Malenfant and Emma Stoney come across a blue circle floating above Africa.
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