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Weaver (GOLLANCZ S.F.) Kindle Edition

by Stephen Baxter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

Stephen Baxter's superb historical thriller series tips over into alternate history as the Germans invade Britain in 1940

The Weaver of Time's Tapestry has finally suceeded in twisting the threads of history into a new shape; the Luftwaffe have pushed the RAF to the brink, and the invasion barges have reached the beaches of Sussex and Kent. Britain wakes up to the nightmare of the Wermacht unleashed in Southern England.

As the desperate battle to hold up the invasion rages it is left to a few indivuals caught up in the panic and chaos to piece together what has really happened - is this the culmination of a plan that has taken centuries to play out, a plot from the future to change the past forever?

Stephen Baxter's historical thriller series crashes into the 20th century with a terrfying vision of mechanised war and political atrocity unleashed on English soil. This is the climax of one of the most thoughful and involving series of novels that have brought history alive like no other.

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    Time's Tapestry
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    340 pages
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"Weaver exceeded my expectations...Arguably the strongest book in a series that has systematically improved with every volume."--Strange Horizons

"Stephen Baxter's historical thriller series crashes into the 20th century with a terrifying vision of mechanized war and political atrocity unleashed on English soil. This is the climax of one of the most thoughtful and involving series of novels that have brought history alive like no other."--Fantastic Fiction

"Good fun, particularly for those already sucked in by the fine historicity of the earlier installments of the series."--SciFiDimensions

About the Author

Stephen Baxter, author of the space duology featuring Proxima and Ultima, is the national bestselling author of Ark and Flood. He is a winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for the best alternate history novel of the year, and he won the Philip K. Dick Award twice, for The Time Ships and for Vacuum Diagrams. He was also a recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for The Time Ships.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002VHI8SG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 24 Sept. 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0575087248
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  • Book 4 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Time's Tapestry
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Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.

Here are the Destiny's Children novels in series order:

Coalescent

Exultant

Transcendent

Resplendent

Time's Tapestry novels in series order:

Emperor

Conqueror

Navigator Weaver

Flood novels:

Flood

Ark

Time Odyssey series (with Arthur C Clarke):

Time's Eye

Sunstorm

Firstborn

Manifold series:

Time

Space

Origin

Phase Space

Mammoth series:

Mammoth (aka Silverhair)

Long Tusk

Ice Bones

Behemoth

NASA trilogy:

Voyage

Titan

Moonseed

Xeelee sequence:

Raft

Timelike Infinity

Flux

Ring

Vacuum Diagrams (linked short stories)

The Xeelee Omnibus (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring)

The Web series for Young Adults:

Gulliverzone

Webcrash

Coming in 2010:

Stone Spring - book one of the Northland series

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  • David John
    5.0 out of 5 stars Weaver by Stephen Baxter
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2021
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    A perfect addition to an alternative historical account that only Stephen Baxter can conceive. I don't know if there is another recent follow up that can have been written, but this book has a convincing narrative with clever historical alternatives woven into it.
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  • Iphidaimos
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but a bit predictable.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2008
    I love Stephen Baxter's work and tackled the "Time's Tapestry" series with eagerness. His writing is as good as it ever was and the idea behind the story is ingenius. Why then did the series leave me feeling a bit disappointed? All I can say is that it was a bit predictable. By book three it was fairly obvious that at least one the "weavers" was a Nazi. At the same time the characters in the four books were similar to a point where it all became a bit boring. Book three I found the least convincing - why would Christopher Columbus be persuaded to sail east in order to start a war against Islam? Would I advise others to read the series? Yes, but I would also warn them that its not Baxter at his best by any means.
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  • Simon Clifford
    5.0 out of 5 stars a good conclusion
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2014
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    The story finished. A good, although not 'epic' finish to the tale. Well worth reading and well worth getting into. Recommended.
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  • MR Ed C PREATER
    3.0 out of 5 stars a disappointing conclusion to the series
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2018
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    alt history of world war two. A tired trope which didn't thrill me all that much. The previous volumes were superb
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  • Mr. H. Morrison
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ve Haf Vays of makink you travel through time...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2009
    Not having read the other books in the series, I can first of all confirm that 'Weaver' is self contained, and, despite a few references to earlier books, this does not detract from the enjoyment of the book.

    The story concerns the 'what if' scenario of a (partially) successful German invasion of England in 1940. This alone would make a good story (and has been done on several occasions) but the plot is thickened by the fiendish Nazis working on a time machine which they hope to use to change history in their favour (an idea that Dean Koonz has also used to good effect).

    The descriptions of Operation Sealion (the invasion of England) and the desperate struggle of the Home Guard to repel the invaders was gripping, especially as it was told from both the German and British viewpoints. I would have liked to have heard more about the post-invasion governance of England (this is only briefly alluded to) as once the invasion is over, the plot turns to the Nazi time machine project.

    The time machine to me seemed a bit of a 'McGuffin' (plot device) as the characters and story are strong enough, I believe, to stand up in their own right without lots of 'reverse the polarity' sub-HG Wells type pseudo-scientific explanations of how time travel might work; but time and the possibility of alternative histories obviously form an integral part of the series.
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  • Tinpants
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mein Gott, what do you mean we didn't win the war?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2015
    Fiction (or was it?) at its best. Great story about 1940. If you liked it, you'll enjoy 'To So Few' and 'Wings over Summer', both great Battle of Britain novels.
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  • Fingers
    5.0 out of 5 stars A ripping yarn
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2009
    I read "Times tapestry" in sequence having bought all four together. As has been said, Weaver is by far the best, probably because the alternate history approach is much more explicit in this book. You will of course have to suspend some belief and accept that such predictions would be passed down or that characters would keep bumping in to one another in the way that they do but read it as a ripping yarn and it's great fun with enough history to make you think.

    the real problem is in publishing the tale as four books instead of as one as I could imagine some readers not bothering to pursue books 1 or 2 which would be disappointing.
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  • Sarah A. Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent conclusion to the series
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2008
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    I'd very much enjoyed the whole Time's Tapestry series but wasn't sure whether Weaver would provide a satisfying conclusion to the story. The first three novels created an atmosphere of intrigue and wonder around the Weaver's identity through intriguing clues and half explained mysteries. Once the possibilities are resolved into a concrete solution (like a magician's trick once you know the secret) then the spell will be broken. This problem made Baxter's recent young adult novel H Bomb Girl, set at the time of the Cuba crisis, just a little disappointing (though still a very good read).

    However Baxter avoids making the reader feel let down in Weaver, partly because this is a rather different kind of novel from the earlier volumes. Whereas Emperor, Conqueror and Navigator spanned a thousand years, Weaver is focused on just one brief moment in (alternate) history, the aftermath of a partial invasion of England by the Nazis. This means that tying up the series' loose ends is only one aspect of the novel, because we get caught up in the adventures of a new set of characters in a perilous situation. Baxter certainly makes the most of one of the most gruesomely compelling "what if" scenarios of all time.

    He's very good at invoking the realities of invasion and resistance and the novel is full of intriguing and convincing details. As in Navigator, he avoids cultural stereotypes very scrupulously, except in the case of the evil (but fatally glamorous) English SS officer, Julia. Lower ranking Nazis are treated fairly sympathetically, especially Ernest, who meekly endures the insults of the English farmer he is billeted with, and reacts with conscientious alarm to the advances of the farmer's rather forward 15 year old daughter.

    This is a thoroughly enjoyable (and exciting) novel. It would I think work perfectly well as a stand alone alternate history novel as well as being a fitting conclusion to an excellent series.
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  • Brent Simpson
    1.0 out of 5 stars And the worst of all
    Reviewed in Germany on 28 September 2013
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    And now the answer to the mystery of the prophecies. Yes, it was the Nazis! Not satisfied with apparently being in the position to win the second world war in 1940/1, they decided to try to change history. Why? So that the Aryan Empire could be established a thousand years earlier! Why would they do that? Why would they wipe themsleves out of history when they thought they were winning?

    This is just unbelievable twaddle. The things the reader is asked to accept so that the author can reach the end of this nightmare is amazing. How badly can an author ruin a basically good idea? The only reason to read this series is as a lesson of how not to write something like this.
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  • A Guy from Chevy Chase
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Conclusion to a Wonderful Series
    Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2011
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    Stephen Baxter continues to amaze.

    His "Weaver" series takes a new spin on alt-history, with attempts by some people of an unspecified future trying to change the course of (mostly) Western Civilization through attempted interventions at critical historical points - Constantine, the Battle of Hastings, Columbus, etc.

    When he suddenly jumps the story to WWII, I was concerned that the discontinuity so carefully avoided in the first 3 volumes was lost. But my fears were misplaced as he neatly ties together the prior events.

    While reading (and remembering the details) of the earlier editions is not, strictly speaking, necessary, it does help one to understand the beauty of his "solution" to the problem he has created. To avoid any "spoilers" all I'll say is that his conclusion is elegant, consistent, and left me with a smile of appreciation for his ingenuity, as well as for his clearly defined characters. Well written, insightful, and extraordinarily clever.
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  • J. L. Gribble
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting conclusion to the series. I wish the final ...
    Reviewed in the United States on 1 October 2014
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    Interesting conclusion to the series. I wish the final book had focused more on the mechanisms of prophecy introduced in the previous three books and less on the minutia of living through World War II. Instead, things tie up a little too neatly, too quickly, at the very end of the book.
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  • ECP
    5.0 out of 5 stars For me, gripping!
    Reviewed in the United States on 28 July 2020
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    While I can understand why the abrupt ending and plodding plot would frustrate many readers of the world we inhabit today, I found this conclusion conclusive enough. Because a drastic universal change would happen instantly if something someone tried as a last chance save did work at the end. Also, the rest of this series entertained, educated and amused me sufficienly to grant five stars. But, I just rate - not review.
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  • Joseph B. Ennis
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 December 2014
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    I do not know, I do not think that I bought this book.
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