The preeminent science fiction writer of his generation, Stephen Baxter was born in 1957 and has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. With Terry Pratchett, he coauthored the Long Earth series of novels. He is also known for the Xeelee Sequence series, the Proxima space-exploration duology, the Time Odyssey trilogy (written with Arthur C. Clarke), and The Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells’s classic The Time Machine, and the award-winning novel Voyage.