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Navigator: Time's Tapestry, Book Three Hardcover – January 2, 2008

by Stephen Baxter (Author)

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A mysterious prophecy continues to transform the face of Europe as two great religions--Christianity and Islam--battle for supremacy across Spain, agents from the future use horrific weapons of destruction to change history, and, in 1492, a bold explorer seeks funding for his western expedition, while an enigmatic Weaver plots to change time itself to stop him.

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The engrossing third Time's Tapestry novel (after Emperor and Conqueror) from Philip K. Dick Award–winner Baxter focuses on Christianity's reconquest of Spain from the Moors between A.D. 1070 and 1492. This conflict is reflected in the struggle between the English and Spanish branches of a family, both of which have received mysterious prophecies and coded instructions containing designs for weapons that could give one side power to annihilate the other. The characters' beliefs and passions shape events, but they don't know how much they have been manipulated by competing tempters from the future. By book's end, two forces emerge to debate whether Christopher Columbus will be given ships to sail west or an army to lead east in an apocalyptic war against Islam. Baxter understands how a craving for beauty and knowledge can become ghastly fanaticism, and he's also very good at showing his characters thinking within the limitations of their time. (Jan.)
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Continuing, from Emperor (2006) and Conqueror (2007), to unfold the outcome of an ambiguous prophecy, Navigator opens with a young woman in a ruined chapel, hiding from Norman soldiers, envisioning civilizations in conflict, wielding mighty engines of war. In Spain, a rogue priest plans Islam’s defeat with such engines, for he has found a point in time where agents from a future tampered with the past and changed his present history. During four centuries, descendants of these two strive to decipher the prophecy and build or destroy the fearsome engines. Eventually, the last Moors are driven from Spain. There remains the question of the prophecy’s last part, beginning “Send the Dove west” The storytelling is excellent; the historical background, exceptionally developed. As before, Baxter shows people in ordinary occupations getting involved and sometimes dragged into dealing with the prophecy. This and the rest of the Time’s Tapestry series aren’t mere page-turners; they’re downright thought-provoking. --Frieda Murray

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace Hardcover; First Edition (January 2, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 044101559X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441015597
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.36 x 1.18 x 9.22 inches

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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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J. L. Gribble

there continue to be horrible deaths. )

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2014

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Devoured in less than 24 hours. I predicted that this book would get more interesting (to me) once we got to a time period I was actually familiar with, and I was right. I especially appreciate that other glimpses of time meddling are starting to appear. Ordering the last book in the series immediately!

(Yes, there continue to be horrible deaths.)

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Brett

A darker turn of events for Time's Tapestry

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2010

The third book in Stephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry series, Navigator is striking in how it differs from the first two novels in the series. Although the historical detail is still present, the setting is different, the characters highly different, and a great deal of complexity is introduced into the mystery surrounding the entity called "The Weaver" and his/hers/its manipulation of time and history.

Some similarities do remain. Like its predecessor, Navigator begins in Great Britain, with a prophecy uttered by a now-dead woman playing a major role in shaping the story. That is where the similarity in setting ends. Unlike the first two novels, Great Britain is little more than a side-show in this book, returned to on a handful of occasions - the major events take place in Spain, as the muslim kingdoms left behind by the spread of Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries are slowly crushed, their populations driven out and replaced by Christian conquerors.

Baxter also continues the pattern he did in the previous two books, with separate "slices" of time in chronological order each containing their own character arcs, dealing with the issue of the prophecy. The characters continue to improve, although most of them are much darker and less sympathetic than their earlier counterparts (particularly the brutal and fanatical Joan and Grace). At the heart of many of their motivations lies religious hatred and intolerance, shaped by years of war between Christian and Muslim. One major difference, though, lies in both the number of arcs (there are fewer of them, and the book is dominated by three arcs in particular), and the fact that the characters of the last character arc in Conqueror are also the characters of the first story arc in Navigator.

Perhaps most interesting of all, the mystery of "The Weaver" and its interventions in time becomes drastically more complex and puzzling. The characters in the book come to understand that there is more than one force meddling in the past, and some are capable of more than sending prophecies through the mouths of women - they send objects, knowledge of powerful weapons, and even people back in time. Baxter in particular dwells on a number of historical "what-ifs" that are avoided by the interventions in time, such as a Islamic conquest of Europe that creates a world nearly united in Islam by different outcome at the Battle of Poiters (in the early 8th century), a Mongol conquest of Europe, and a massive future war between the New World and the Old.

Some of these historical scenarios seem questionable in veracity; many historians, for example, have downplayed the traditional importance placed on the Battle of Poitiers (particularly since Islamic armies returned north of the Pyrenees later in southern France and were driven). The "New vs Old World" scenario seems far-fetched (although there is a reason for this that becomes clear in the fourth and final book), and although the Mongols were highly dangerous and heavily influential, it is important to not over-emphasize their capabilities. Moreover, the drastic move from a subtler, mysterious prophecy to much more specific and dangerous information (such as weapons from the future) doesn't pan out too well; it and many of the developments come across as silly and unrealistic rather than threatening and possible. While alternate history doesn't need to be 100% justified, it does at least need to be -likely-.

This book is, in many ways, much darker, with far more of an emotional gut punch - hardly surprising, considering its subject material and setting (the reconquest of Spain by Christians after centuries of Muslim rule). Although the key framework continues to be the prophecy (now prophecies) of those trying to shape the past from the future, their secrecy beings to unravel, with some well-done and not-so-well-done outcomes written. Although inferior to the second book (arguably the best in the series), Navigator is a fairly interesting novel that drew me and kept me until the end.

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David B. Rosenfield

I am a fan

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2011

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I have been reading Baxter for a year now and he has become my favorite hard SF writer, taking me to distant places and times. He is very courageous in his efforts. I love it. And he has lots of works so I wont run out of reading real soon.

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014

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I do not know, I do not think that I bought this book.

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Gregory8

I am a big Stephen Baxter fan

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2013

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This series is unlike anything that has come before from him. Like most of his writings you cannot help but learn some real science, political structure, history, etc. in reading the books of this series which has an emphasis on alternative history.

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Randy Stafford

A Peculiar But Compulsively Readable Alternate History Series

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2009

Huddled in a church cellar hiding from Normans putting down an English rebellion in the wake of the Norman Conquest, a woman seemingly becomes possessed and utters a strange prophecy about a Dove to the Viking mercenary that will become her husband. That prophecy will be remembered by her descendents, and it will seem to contradict another prophecy held by an ambitious priest who has left England for Spain and its Moorish learning that may help him realize weapons designs from the future.

So begins the third book in this compulsively readable "alternate history epic". This novels differs from its two predecessors with an alternate history actually developing. There is a deviation from our historical timeline when weapons technology develops slightly faster. The big historical events, however, are not different. The Battle of Potiers still stops a Moslem advance into Europe, and Western Civilization dodges a bullet with the sudden death of Genghis Khan. But Baxter's story says there's more involved in those events than it seems, that there may not be, as implied in previous books, just one entity from the future attempting to manipulate history but two or even four, all with different agendas. And the last third of the book makes Columbus the pivot in another struggle to change history.

This book, like its predecessors, is still mostly an historical novel. It's not a genre I normally care for, but the short lengths of the books and Baxter's epic sweep make him concentrate on the grand sweep of history, not the minutae of daily life in any one era. If the latter is what you like in your historical fiction, than these books may not appeal to you.

If you like alternate history, Baxter has created an interesting one. But you should start at the beginning of the series and not with this book. Those that have come this far will not be disappointed with this book.

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Simon Clifford

The plot thickens ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2014

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Super story continues, a little more is revealed about the nature of the prophecies in this additional installment of the set of stories, however it's hardly necessary to write more about the wonderful style of Stephen Baxter's novels. It's good and it gets better in the final and closing part to come.

Brent Simpson

Hopeless

Reviewed in Germany on September 28, 2013

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Having begun this series, I dragged myself through it in the hope that atsome point it would achieve at least mediocrity. In vain.
The basic premis is good, but the execution is laughable. Poorly thought out, ridiculous in its assumptions, crudely characterised.
Don't waste your money.

Kindle Customer

Mildly interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2015

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Next please,not quite Bernard Cornwall hope we actually find out who the weaver is and why and most importantly,how.If these questions are not answered I will be a bit miffed.

David Howard

great Book Great story. if your into fantasy all these books are well worth reading.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2017

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great Book Great story. if your into fantasy all these books are well worth reading.

ronald gridley

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2014

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did not appear to be as intresting as other books in series, will ponder to continue