Stella Nova is one of the virus children , a generation of genetically enhanced babies born to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus. The children represent the next evolutionary leap and a new species of human, Homo sapiens novus, but this is officially denied and the children are locked up.

A modern masterpiece from 'One of the genre's great ideas men (THE TIMES) nelwy packaged for a new audience

A stunning new companion series to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY from the world's most important living SF writer and his acknowledged heir.

In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the enemy have escaped into the past, intent on wreaking havoc across time. The worst of these is Cowl, an artificially forced advance in human evolution but one who is no longer human.

In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 3001.

The highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke.