Origin (Paperback, New Ed)

'ORIGIN: WHERE TIME AND SPACE CONVERGE'

A vast electric-blue circle of light appears in the air over Africa. Before it vanishes as though it never was, the Red Moon replaces the moon we think of as our own. In the violence of the event small groups of people are swept from the face of the earth and hurled towards the Red Moon. NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant's wife Emma is among them.

Through the months of floods and earthquakes that follow Malenfant singlemindedly lobbies for a moonshoot to rescue her. He's heading for the Red Moon, where time and space converge, the origin of the manifold.

At last the hidden resolution of the Fermi paradox concerning the existence of extraterrestrials – 'if they existed they would be here' – is revealed in all its stunning significance.

"Arthur C. Clarke, Issac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded in doing it…Now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks."
'New Scientist'