Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 November 1957
- Works
- 193
Top works
- 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
- The Long War
- Bridging Infinity
- Other Worlds Than These
- The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Liverpool
- Active from
- 1957-11-13
has german audiobooks
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 164
- Total plays
- 4,450
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Baxter">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,093x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 40,533x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 27,857x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,351x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,915x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”
- “The essential condition for life is the existence of sharp energy gradients.”
- ““Hunger,” Hollerbach said. “The universal imperative.””
- “Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival.”
- “But you are a scientist, Michael Poole; and the skill of a scientist is in asking the right question.”
- “It’s all a bit anarchic, I suppose, but it’s also highly effective. Flexible, responsive, mobile, heuristic, with intelligence distributed to the lowest level...A bit like an ideal human society, I suppose; free individuals seeking out ways to advance the common good.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- 1957 (age 68 – 69), Liverpool , England
- Occupation
- Writer
- Genre
- Hard science fiction , Alternate history
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.stephen-baxter.com
- Image
- Baxter Stephen.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Stephen Baxter
- date of birth
- 1957-11-13
- Commons gallery
- Stephen Baxter
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Article
Stephen Baxter (born 1957) is an English hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.
Early life and education
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Categories
1957 births20th-century English novelists21st-century British novelists21st-century English novelistsAlumni of Sidney Sussex College, CambridgeAlumni of the University of ReadingAlumni of the University of SouthamptonBLP articles lacking sources from October 2025British alternative history writersBritish male short story writersBritish science fiction writersEnglish male novelistsEnglish male short story writersEnglish science fiction writersEnglish short story writersLiving peopleSchoolteachers from MerseysideSidewise Award winnersWriters from Liverpool