If you are a Steven Baxter fan than you know his writing style and have grown to like it. This particular book (Manifold: Time) was my favorite of the three. If you are new to Stephen Baxter and are looking for a space drama, or in depth character building and in depth story telling, this is probably not the author for you. In this regard you will not be disappointed. Ultimately of you are a Stephen Baxter fan, you are probably a fan for his far reaching epic looks at humanity and humanity's place in the cosmos as well as his pension for shoe horning cutting edge physics theory into plausible sci-fi. Or rather, you can see the basis for those books in this series. Stephen Baxter also does nothing new with these books if you have read his more contemporary books (Ring, Evolution, Transcendence, etc. These are three seperate books, about seperate themes, revolving around the same cast of characters (think alternate realities here). Each book can be enjoyed seperately in any order, but if you read them back to back expecting a linear story line, you will be disappointed. Unfortunately this set of books is not really a series. Rather, it covers large expanses of human growth from the far past to the far flung future. Like most Stephen Baxter books, this series doesn't lend to small themes.
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