'Dante Dreams' (1998) – A police woman from San Francisco travels to the Vatican to investigate the suicide of a Jesuit priest and an illegally created sentient hologram based on the late priest.(An earlier version of this story appeared in Decalog 5: Wonders (1997).) 'Poyekhali 3201' (1997) – The experiences of a Russian cosmonaut are no more than the ultimate re-enactment.'Glass Earth, Inc.' (1997) – A policeman must sort through the memories of a murder to find out who the killer is, and in the process, learns more about himself than he ever knew.'Open Loops' (2000) – An astronaut explores, and later becomes a colonist on an asteroid, observing the expansion and evolution of humanity over the millennia.'Moon-Calf' (1998) – A retired astronaut finds hints of an ancient space voyage while on holiday in England.The book contains the following short stories: The stories are mostly set in the same Multiverse as the books in his Manifold series, with a few stories related to his separate NASA Trilogy. 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. Phase Space (subtitled Stories from the Manifold and Elsewhere) is a 2003 science fiction collection by British writer Stephen Baxter, containing twenty-three thematically linked stories, in which the human relationship with the universe is explored: whether humanity is truly alone in the universe, if there are other intelligent species, if these have turned their backs on us, or if expansion itself is destined to fail.

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