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It's not H.G. Wells and neither time nor interstellar travel are involved.

Is it perhaps this book with sixteen or so subsequent races of transhumans who's history the story follows right up to their eventual extinction?

Hmmm... H.G. Wells the time machine?

I sense another point for Lestradae unless someone beats him to the punch.

Loxley wrote:

I sense another point for Lestradae unless someone beats him to the punch.

Ah, then it's "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon.

Now I looked it up and it was actually seventeen trans-human races followed.

Three points then?

OK, have to think about a next question if my guess was correct. I will try not to be as obscure as with the last one.

We have a winner! The floor is yours Lestradae.

edit to add: The suggestions for Stephen Baxter suggest I should have a look at some of his work, interesting stuff by the sound of it.

Loxley wrote:

edit to add: The suggestions for Stephen Baxter suggest I should have a look at some of his work, interesting stuff by the sound of it.

I hear his Mammoth series is excellent.

Disclaimer: No I don’t.

As suggested earlier, the 'Xeelee Sequence' by Stephen Baxter, is well worth a read... it runs to about ten novels now, I think, but the first three, Raft, Flux and Ring, are great.

edit: my memory maybe playing tricks... are those the first three? Just checked... forgot Timelike Infinity, the second one.

Guess I'll have a look at the "Xeelee Sequence" then. Thanks for the advice gentlemen.

Just finished Ark (the second in the Flood series) Baxter is back to form with some good hard science (with references in the appendix!). Read Flood first as some of the back references won't make a great deal of sense otherwise.

While we wait for the next question, can any of you sci-fi buffs help me remember the title of a novel I read some years ago.
A vague plot line is all I can recall:

From a remote distance, an unknown alien race had seeded the major fault lines and subduction zones of Earth with some sort of nukes, I think, that would fragment the planet. It ends with the Earth flying apart… gone.

Any ideas?

Greg Bear, but I don't know the title in English... One of the follow-ups is anvil of stars IIRC...


Edit: google to the rescue: forge of God : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God

Thanks, Rxke, that might just be it... I'll get it from the local library soon and re-read it.

Ah, so sorry, just got back from holiday. Next trivia question.

OK: It's a TV series about a guy who is supposed to be the shining hero (albeit one with quite some flaws), even though he is personally responsible for the biggest genocide ever "successfully" commited in any other SciFi story that I know of - it makes World War II look like a tavern brawl with just two drunks involved.

What is the name of that series?