Deep Future

What does the future really hold?

How different will life be at the end of the 21st century? Can technology save us from ecological disaster? What is to be learnt from the abortive Apollo and Shuttle programmes that will help us escape the bounds of Earth in the future?

And if we do escape Earth can we make a home on the harsh planets and moons of our solar system? Or must we travel further, defying the limitations of physics, and colonise the whole galaxy and beyond? And who or what shall we meet when we get there?

And what, in the end, long after the stars have expended their energy and the universe has gone dark, can we do to survive the end of time itself?

'Deep Future' takes you on a dazzling ride to the limits of time and space. Along the way Stephen Baxter looks at our place in the universe, considers the possibility that we are in fact alone - and wonders whether that fact gives us the right to inherit everything, as we strive to overcome the limitations of the physical universe and win the deepest future.

Stephen Baxter has brought his trademark narrative flair and imaginative brilliance to the latest ideas in physics and cosmology and produces a breathtaking guide to our possible futures.