Stephen Baxter

To round off our Big Science Read Weekend, we are thrilled to host a reading by one of the UK’s leading science-fiction writers, Stephen Baxter. Baxter has published some forty books and over a hundred short stories. His most recent novel was Flood (Gollancz, 2008). He has won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan). His novel Voyage was dramatised by Audio Movies for BBC Radio and broadcast in 1999. Baxter worked as a teacher of maths and physics for several years then applied to become a cosmonaut but fell at an early hurdle. He is Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association and a Vice-President of the HG Wells Society.