Any errors or misconceptions are of course the authors’ sole responsibility.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Stephen Baxter
June 2007
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ARTHUR C. CLARKE is considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and is an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that a 1945 article by him led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Clarke—both fiction and nonfiction—have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka.
STEPHEN BAXTER is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge and Southampton universities. Baxter is the acclaimed author of the Manifold novels and Evolution. He is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
ALSO BY THE AUTHORS FROM THE RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP
BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND STEPHEN BAXTER
A Time Odyssey: Time’s Eye
A Time Odyssey: Sunstorm
BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Childhood’s End
Rendezvous with Rama
2010: Odyssey Two
The Songs of Distant Earth
2061: Odyssey Three
3001: The Final Odyssey
Hammer of God
BY STEPHEN BAXTER
Manifold: Time
Manifold: Space
Manifold: Origin
Destiny’s Children: Coalescent
Destiny’s Children: Exultant
Destiny’s Children: Transcendent
Firstborn is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clarke, Arthur Charles.
Firstborn / Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-50448-7
1. Space and time—Fiction. I. Baxter, Stephen. II. Title.
PR6005.L36F57 2007
823'.914—dc22 2007028329
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