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Arthur C Clarke Award short profiles: Stephen Baxter
10/03/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Coming out of the Interzone stable of authors, Stephen Baxter's first published science fiction novel all the way back in 1991 was Raft. The same year SFcrowsnest started online on AppleWorld, in fact. Buy The H-bomb Girl in the USA - or Buy The H-bomb Girl in the UK  He has gone to produce quite a few more works, mostly falling into the 'hard SF' camp - with more string theory and cutting-edge cosmological weapons than you can shake out of an event horizon
His best-known work is his Xeelee universe novels, which are set in the far, far future, where humans are rising to become the second most powerful race in the universe, next to the Xeelee super-beings - creatures left from an earlier age of physics in the universe.
His Mammoth stories were written for kids, and he also wrote The Time Ships - the authorised sequel to The Time Machine.
The novel he has been nominated for this year, The H-bomb Girl, features a young girl called Laura being hunted down by mysterious baddies - and is basically an alternative reality/time travel adventure where the Cuban Missile crisis goes nuclear leading to world war three, while various forces from the future are battling things out to ensure the war either does or doesn't happen in Laura's timeline.
Of all the nominees for this year's award, he's probably the closest in style to Arthur C Clarke's own work.
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