Traces

Traces is a collection of short stories written by British sci-fi author Stephen Baxter. Unlike similar collections such as Vacuum Diagrams and Phase Space, it is not related to any particular series by Baxter (as, for example, Vacuum Diagrams is related to his Xeelee Sequence).

The book contains the following short stories:

  • "Traces" (1991)
  • "Darkness" (1995)
  • "The Droplet" (1989)
  • "No Longer Touch the Earth" (1993)
  • "Mittelwelt" (1993)
  • "Journey to the King Planet" (1990)
  • "The Jonah Man" (1989)
  • "Downstream" (1993)
  • "The Blood of Angels" (1994)
  • "Columbiad" (1996)
  • "Brigantia's Angels" (1995)
  • "Weep for the Moon" (1992)
  • "Good News" (1994)
  • "Something for Nothing" (1988)
  • "In the Manner of Trees" (1992)
  • "Pilgrim 7" (1993)
  • "Zemlya" (1997)
  • "Moon Six" (1997)
  • "George and the Comet" (1991)
  • "Inherit the Earth" (1992)
  • "In the MSOB" (1996)
  • "Afterword(Traces)" (1998, essay)
Works by Stephen Baxter
Xeelee Sequence
  • Raft
  • Timelike Infinity
  • Flux
  • Ring
  • Vacuum Diagrams
  • Reality Dust
  • Riding the Rock
  • Mayflower II
  • Starfall
Destiny's Children
  • Coalescent
  • Exultant
  • Transcendent
  • Resplendent
Manifold Trilogy
  • Time
  • Space
  • Origin
  • Phase Space
Mammoth Trilogy
  • Silverhair
  • Longtusk
  • Icebones
A Time Odyssey
  • Time's Eye
  • Sunstorm
  • Firstborn
The Web Series
  • Gulliverzone
  • Webcrash
Time's Tapestry
  • Emperor
  • Conqueror
  • Navigator
  • Weaver
NASA Trilogy
  • Voyage
  • Titan
  • Moonseed
Flood/Ark
  • Flood
  • Ark
Northland Trilogy
  • Stone Spring
  • Bronze Summer
  • Iron Winter
Others
  • The Twelfth Album
  • Anti-Ice
  • The Time Ships
  • The Light of Other Days
  • Evolution
  • The H-Bomb Girl
  • The Wheel of Ice
  • The Long Earth
Unrelated collections
  • Traces
  • The Hunters of Pangaea
Non-fiction
  • Deep Future
  • Omegatropic
  • Ages in Chaos


Famous quotes containing the word traces:

    “True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Einstein is not ... merely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.”
    —Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)