He ran to the door, dragged it open, and with a sweep of his massive arm he knocked aside the scrambling crowd of Zealot men. It took an agonizing minute of repetition, with the hammering on the door turning into a splintering, before he responded. Neither can imagine the small and immense evolutionary secrets cloaked in the atmosphere of the red moon, or guess at how a vast, living, tightly woven cosmos has shaped our planet as we know it-and how it will shape it again.From the Hardcover edition.Gently Emma pulled his arm away from his face. But neither can foresee the extraordinary adventures that await them. Malenfant, teamed with a Japanese scientist named Nemoto, will get his chance to rescue his wife. And Reid Malenfant is back in Texas, reliving the plane crash, looking up at the red moon, and knowing in his heart that Emma is there.Emma is there, beginning a journey of survival that is both horrific and fascinating, utterly familiar and totally beyond comprehension. Now Emma has awakened in a strange, Earthlike world, among physically powerful, primitive creatures who share humankind's features and desires but lack the human mind. And NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant, and his wife Emma, are hurtling through the African sky in a training jet, when everything changes forever.For Malenfant and Emma, a reckless flight in a T-38 above the sun-baked continent sends them colliding with a great wheel in the sky. Scientists scramble desperately to understand what is on the big red moon and how it got there.

While coastlands flood by the new gravitational forces, millions of people die. on earth and beyond.In the year 2015 a red moon appears in the Earth's orbit: brooding, multitextured, beautiful, and alive. Claiming the legacy of Heinlein and Asimov, Baxter now returns with his third Manifold novel-in which he uses an astounding adventure story to posit a breathtaking vision of the origin of species.

Heralded by Arthur Clark as 'a major new talent,' Baxter stands time and space on their collective heads, envisions the future reflected in the past, and the past in the galaxy's most distant reaches and unformed speculations.

Stephen Baxter's Manifold novels have struck the world of science fiction like a meteor.

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