Title: Coalescent
Title Record # 151859
Author: Stephen Baxter
Date: 2003-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Destiny's Children
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Stephen Baxter
Date: 2003-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Destiny's Children
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Del Rey first printing: George Poole isn't sure whether his life has reached a turning point or a dead end. At forty-five, he is divorced and childless, with a career that is going nowhere fast. Then, when his father dies suddenly, George stumbles onto a family secret: a sister he never knew existed. A twin named Rosa, raised in Rome by an enigmatic cult. Hoping to find the answers to the missing pieces of his life, George sets out for the ancient city.
Once in Rome, he learns from Rosa the enthralling story of their distant ancestor, Regina, an iron-willed genius determined to preserve her family as the empire disintegrates around her. It was Regina who founded the cult, which has mysteriously survived and prospered below the streets of Rome for almost two millennia. The Order, says Rosa, is her real family - and, even if he doesn't realize it yet, it is George's family, too. When she takes him into the vast underground city that is the Order's secret home, he feels a strong sense of belonging, yet there is something oddly disturbing about the women he meets. They are all so young and so very much alike.
Now, joined by his boyhood friend Peter McLachlan, who arrives in Rome with a dark secret of his own, George uncovers evidence suggesting that the women of the Order have embarked on a divergent evolutionary path. But they are not just a new kind of human. They are a better kind, genetically superior, equipped with all the tools necessary to render homo sapiens as extinct as the Neanderthals. And, chillingly, George and Peter soon have reason to fear that this colony is preparing to leave its overcrowded underground nest..."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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9 | 2004 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Finalists | 2004 Clarke | Best Science Fiction Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Coalescent | 2003-10-00 | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 0-575-07423-X | £17.99?£: UK pound |
473 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Coalescent | 2003-10-00 | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 0-575-07424-8 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
473 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Coalescent | 2003-12-00 | Stephen Baxter | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-45785-4 | $25.95?$: US dollar |
485 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | David Stevenson | |
Coalescent | 2003-12-00 | Stephen Baxter | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-45787-0 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | David Stevenson | ||
Coalescent | 2004-02-00 | Stephen Baxter | Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC | 62491 | $12.99?$: US dollar |
485 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | David Stevenson | |
Coalescent | 2004-06-00 | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 0-575-07553-8 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
536 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | EkhornForss | |
Der Orden | 2004-11-00 | Stephen Baxter | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #6479) | 3-453-52012-2 | €9.95?€: Euro |
637 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Coalescent | 2004-12-00 | Stephen Baxter | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-45786-2 | $7.50?$: US dollar |
527+ [9] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | David Stevenson | |
Coalescence | 2006-05-00 | Stephen Baxter | Presses de la Cité?Presses de la Cite |
2-258-06687-5 | €23.00?€: Euro |
539 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Coalescence | 2009-01-28 | Stephen Baxter | Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5942) | 978-2-266-17375-9 | 731 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Pascal Casolari | ||
Coalescent | 2010-06-10 | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 978-0-575-09859-6 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
The Xeelee Sequence | 2016-08-11 | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 978-1-4732-1712-6 | £69.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
omni | |||
Destiny's Children | 2016-10-13 | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 978-1-4732-1714-0 | £34.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
omni | |||
Coalescent | date unknown | Stephen Baxter | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-45786-2 | $7.50?$: US dollar |
527+ [9] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | David Stevenson | |
Coalescent | date unknown | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 0-575-07553-8 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
536 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | EkhornForss | |
Coalescent | date unknown | Stephen Baxter | Gollancz | 0-575-07553-8 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
536 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | EkhornForss |
Reviews
- Review by Gary S. Dalkin [as by Gary Dalkin] (2003) in Vector 232
- Review by Nick Gevers (2003) in Locus, #514 November 2003
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2003) in Locus, #514 November 2003
- Review by Nigel Brown (2004) in Interzone, #193 Spring 2004
- Review by Peter Heck (2004) in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2004
- Review by uncredited (2004) in Vector 237
- Review by Kathryn Morrow [as by Kathryn S. Morrow] (2004) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2004
- Review [French] by Claude Ecken (2006) in Bifrost, #43
- Review [French] by Tom Clegg (2007) in Galaxies, #42