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  Any errors or misconceptions are of course the authors’ sole responsibility.

  Sir Arthur C. Clarke

  Stephen Baxter

  June 2007

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  ARTHUR C. CLARKE is considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and is an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that a 1945 article by him led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Clarke—both fiction and nonfiction—have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka.

  STEPHEN BAXTER is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge and Southampton universities. Baxter is the acclaimed author of the Manifold novels and Evolution. He is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award.

  ALSO BY THE AUTHORS FROM THE RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP

  BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND STEPHEN BAXTER

  A Time Odyssey: Time’s Eye

  A Time Odyssey: Sunstorm

  BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE

  Childhood’s End

  Rendezvous with Rama

  2010: Odyssey Two

  The Songs of Distant Earth

  2061: Odyssey Three

  3001: The Final Odyssey

  Hammer of God

  BY STEPHEN BAXTER

  Manifold: Time

  Manifold: Space

  Manifold: Origin

  Evolution

  Destiny’s Children: Coalescent

  Destiny’s Children: Exultant

  Destiny’s Children: Transcendent

  Firstborn is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2008 by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Clarke, Arthur Charles.

  Firstborn / Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter.

  p. cm.

  1. Space and time—Fiction. I. Baxter, Stephen. II. Title.

  PR6005.L36F57 2007

  823'.914—dc22 2007028329

  www.delreybooks.com

  eISBN: 978-0-345-50448-7

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  Arthur C. Clarke, Firstborn

  (Series: A Time Odyssey # 3)

 

 


 

 
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