Firstborn (Stephen Baxter)
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Firstborn is a 2007 novel by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke. It is book three in the A Time Odyssey series.
Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey series contains hints about the firstborn, who were the first intelligent beings and started an endless mission regulate the development of sentient life in the Universe, in order to prevent other (un-civilized, in their view) species from harnessing too much of it's energy. They believe that this will at the very least delay the inevitable cold death of the Universe, supposedly just enough for them to make up a plan to escape. They see Humanity as one of the biggest threats to their project, given its unusually accelerated rate of development as well as human's own tendency towards self-destruction (which would mean that all of humanity's progress has been in vain).
| Books by Stephen Baxter (edit) |
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| Xeelee Sequence: Raft - Timelike Infinity - Flux - Ring - Vacuum Diagrams - Reality Dust - Riding the Rock |
| Destiny's Children Series: Coalescent - Exultant - Transcendent - Resplendent |
| Manifold Trilogy: Time - Space - Origin - Phase Space |
| The Mammoth Trilogy: Silverhair - Longtusk - Icebones |
| A Time Odyssey Series: Time's Eye - Sunstorm - Firstborn |
| The Web Series: Gulliverzone - Webcrash |
| Time's Tapestry Series: Emperor - Conqueror |
| NASA Trilogy: Voyage - Titan - Moonseed |
| Others: Anti-Ice - The Time Ships - The Light of Other Days - Traces - Evolution |
| Non-fiction: Deep Future - Omegatropic - Ages in Chaos |
