* Stephen Baxter's science fiction novel Transcendent has a brief discussion on the nature of infinity, with an explanation based on the paradox, modified to use starship troopers rather than hotels.

Some science-fiction works, particularly of the " hard " genre, have explicitly made use of the Alcubierre theory, such as Stephen Baxter's novel Ark.

He also featured as a minor character in Stephen Baxter's time-travelling novel The Time Ships.

" Blue Shift " is the tenth story chronologically to appear in Stephen Baxter's collection of linked stories anthology novel Vacuum Diagrams.

* In Stephen Baxter's novel Flood, Mount Everest – the highest point on Earth – is submerged in this year.

* These events form the background to chapter 42 of Stephen Baxter's 2003 science fiction novel Coalescent.

Baxter's novel explores a range of possible attitudes toward space exploration and science in the early twenty-first century in which he lays down his concerns about anti-intellectualism and the loss of the pioneering spirit in modern American politics and culture.

In Baxter's novel, America is ruled by a fundamentalist Christian president named Xavier Maclachlan who, believing Earth is the centre of the universe, orders the equal treatment of the Ptolemaic model of the solar system in high school curricula, all the while youth culture goes into a rebellious downward spiral with the widespread adoption of digital entertainment technology.

* Weaver ( Stephen Baxter ), the fourth novel in Baxter's Time's

Raft is both Baxter's first novel and first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present.

In 1999 he produced a five-part adaptation of Stephen Baxter's alternative history novel Voyage.

Examples of the mutual inscrutability and the potentially unbridgeable gaps between races which — by their very natures — are just too different to bond or even to accept each other, include Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence concept of the dark matter photino birds, the god-like Firstborn from Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey series, and Stanisław Lem's planet Solaris and the events of the novel Fiasco.

Cranborne studied Baxter's statistics and on 21 February he met Lord Carnarvon, who wrote in his diary: " He is firmly convinced now that Disraeli has played us false, that he is attempting to hustle us into his measure, that Lord Derby is in his hands and that the present form which the question has now assumed has been long planned by him ".

That same night Cranborne spent three hours studying Baxter's statistics and wrote to Carnarvon the day after that although Baxter was right overall in claiming that 30 % of £ 10 ratepayers who qualified for the vote would not register, it would be untrue in relation to the smaller boroughs where the register is kept up to date.

Cyclophosphamide ( Baxter's Cytoxan ) is probably the most potent immunosuppressive compound.

The opening prelude theme is an interpretation of Les Baxter's " Quiet Village ".

Les Baxter's Ritual of the Savage ( Le Sacre du Sauvage ) is one of the definitive albums of the exotica genre.

Written in the same style as most of Stephen Baxter's work, Phase Space is a collection of more or less scientifically based stories in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke.

Lieserl is the title of the fifth story in Stephen Baxter's science fiction anthology Vacuum Diagrams.

Although the reason for Lieserl's task is an integral part of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence, the majority of the story is devoted to a study of the character, Lieserl, and the pain she suffers as a result of her accelerated existence.

Stephen Baxter's story Glass Earth Inc., which refers explicitly to " The Machine Stops ", is included in the book Phase Space.

Baxter's history is intertwined with Baxter State Park, which bears his name, and with Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest point ( the highest knob on Katahdin is called Baxter Peak ).

This is supported by Baxter's observation that modern Min dialects show a difference in pronunciation between 厚 and 後, both of which belong to the Middle Chinese 匣 initial ( reconstructed as ɣ ~ ɦ ).

" Pilot " is the title of a short story in science fiction author Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence.

The novel's final chapter has been heavily criticized for excessive implausibility, but it can be read as deliberate wishful thinking: it epitomises Baxter's moral that if the human race is to survive indefinitely, it must become more proactive in its approach to space travel, and not resort to shallow militarism or nationalist isolationism.

The depiction of Titan's surface is speculation based on respectable scientific data that was available in 1997-in fact the book " Lifting Titan's Veil " notes that Baxter's story paraphrases closely sections of papers by Lorenz on raindrops on Titan and the geomorphology of crater lakes.

Perhaps Baxter's best-known series of sketches is Parliamo Glasgow.

An exception occurs when the monopolist's market is price-regulated ( Baxter's Law ).

The original idea was to have Baxter's character gradually come to mirror Colbert's over the course of the film.

Wallis appears as a fictionalized character in Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, the authorised sequel to The Time Machine.

Head made a brief appearance in Columbo: Requiem for a Falling Star ( 1973 ) acting as herself, the clothing designer for Anne Baxter's character.

She seemingly acts as the book's protagonist and a characterized incarnation of Baxter's views of NASA and humanity's destiny in space, an all-knowing archetype character used predominantly in Baxter's other novels.

Originally named Baxter's Flat, Baxter was founded by pastoralist Benjamin Baxter, who lived in a property named Carrup Carrup-the Aboriginal name.

He works for Dunstable helping to compile the Dunstable family history, but is poorly treated by the Duke, who suspects him of going on " toots ", and hits him in the face with a well-thrown egg when he hears him singing on the lawn outside his rooms, and also has him help steal Emsworth's prize pig Empress of Blandings, a task which sorely tries Baxter's nerve ; he is later slipped a Mickey Finn by Uncle Fred.

) The most notable new arrival was the teenage actress who played Millie Ballard, Steve Baxter's receptionist.

Tiki exotica was introduced with Martin Denny's Waikiki nightclub jungle noises cover of Baxter's Quiet Village.

The combination of McDonald's cerebral approach to harmony, funkier beats and R & B vocal flavor, along with Baxter's guitar pyrotechnics, pushed the band away from the more proletarian biker-bong-boogie style that made them popular originally.

Baxter's connexion with the Parliamentary army was a very characteristic one.

In 1957, Martin Denny covered Les Baxter's " Quiet Village ", with exotic bird calls and a vibraphone instead of strings, which established the sound of the Polynesian styled music.

The factions engage in a fierce gunfight, with Ramon managing to " kill " the " survivors " and Esteban capturing John Baxter's son, Antonio.

They went on to continued success with the 1976 album Takin ' It to the Streets, 1977's Livin ' on the Fault Line, and particularly 1978's Minute by Minute, which spent five weeks as the # 1 album in the U. S. and spawned several hit singles ; Baxter's work on the album includes a noted performance at the end of " How Do the Fools Survive?

Baxter's work with that panel led to consulting contracts with the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Baxter's term as Governor coincided with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a force in Maine and national politics.

Brewster succeeded Baxter as governor in 1925 and, with the help of the Klan and Maine State Senate president Buzzell, sabotaged Baxter's candidacy for the U. S. Senate in 1926.

Although the Baxter's confederates pled guilty, the future Governor fought the charges with the help of his father, Portland Mayor James Phinney Baxter, and managed to have his record expunged.

Dr. Donald Baxter's experiment with burn victims lead him down a dangerous path as he uses the regenerative powers of lizards on his patients with terrifying results.

In the novels, Clarke refers to them as the " Firstborn " ( not to be confused with the identically-named race in Arthur C. Clarke's and Stephen Baxter's Time Odyssey Series ) since they were quite possibly the first sentient species to possess a significant capability of interstellar travel.

Having retired in 1990, Baxter returned for a one-off Christmas 2008 special for ITV, containing a mix of archived and new material, with celebrity comedians commenting on Baxter's influence on their lives and careers.

All six of Baxter's hour-long ITV specials were released on a two-disc DVD set in 2005 as The Stanley Baxter Collection with a further two-disc DVD set being released in 2006 under the title The Stanley Baxter Series & Picture Show featuring both of his series of half-hour shows for ITV.

Another acquisition in the west of Scottish Omnibuses ' territory was Baxter's Bus Service of Airdrie in 1962, with local services in the Airdrie and Coatbridge areas.

* 1962: Victoria Depot, Airdrie ( Gartlea Road ) taken over with Baxter's business ( code V )

She developed a friendship with Baxter's two daughters Christina and Isabel.