The Manifold Trilogy is a series of science fiction books by Stephen Baxter. It consists of
three novels and an anthology of short stories relating to the three. The three books in the
trilogy are not ordered chronologically; instead, they are thematically linked stories that
take place in alternate universes.

Manifold: Time 1999 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee
Manifold: Space 2000
Manifold: Origin 2001

Each novel contains the same or mostly similar characters, though these characters find
themselves in wildly different circumstances in each story. In each of the three novels,
the main character is a man named Reid Malenfant, a brash, ambitious entrepreneur and former
astronaut who gets drawn up into the complexities of each novel's plot. Each novel starts off
on Earth, in a relatively mundane near future, but eventually expands into the far future and
deep space.

Each one of the main novels deals with a possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox. The first,
Time, is set in a universe that is completely devoid of intelligent life beyond that of mankind
and its creations (i.e. A.I. and uplifted animals).

The second in the series, Space, proposes the opposite: that life is endemic to the universe,
and there is intelligence in nearly all possible places of the cosmos. The solution to the
Fermi Paradox in this novel is that intelligent life is continually wiped out by cosmic
disasters before it has time to spread too far.

The third novel, Origins, is set in a multiverse that is a compromise between the ideals in
the first two novels: that life is only on Earth, but at the same time is everywhere. This
novel solves the Fermi Paradox by suggesting that intelligent life is segregated into separate
parallel universes.

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