Stone Spring

The Northland Trilogy

Praised as “one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced” (SF Site), national bestselling author Stephen Baxter presents a new saga of a world that could have become our own....

Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain existed that linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature’s bounty, but is also subject to its whims.

Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho—a town that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible....
Praise for Stephen Baxter and Stone Spring

“There are few speculators in fiction with a greater reputation for boldness and breadth than Stephen Baxter.”—Strange Horizons

“A learned, imaginative, bold, sweeping, wonderful evocation of life and the world 10,000 years ago.”—The Daily Mail (UK)

“Baxter proves to be not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction.…An epic tale not unlike Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth.”—Library Journal
© Sandra Shepherd
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge and Southampton Universities. Baxter is the winner of both the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in Long Form. He also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. View titles by Stephen Baxter

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Praised as “one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced” (SF Site), national bestselling author Stephen Baxter presents a new saga of a world that could have become our own....

Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain existed that linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature’s bounty, but is also subject to its whims.

Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho—a town that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible....

Reviews

Praise for Stephen Baxter and Stone Spring

“There are few speculators in fiction with a greater reputation for boldness and breadth than Stephen Baxter.”—Strange Horizons

“A learned, imaginative, bold, sweeping, wonderful evocation of life and the world 10,000 years ago.”—The Daily Mail (UK)

“Baxter proves to be not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction.…An epic tale not unlike Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth.”—Library Journal

Author

© Sandra Shepherd
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge and Southampton Universities. Baxter is the winner of both the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in Long Form. He also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. View titles by Stephen Baxter