Anyone here like Stephen Baxter?

I have a friend who's a big Stephen Baxter fan, particularly with the way his stories involve very long timescales and seem to have a habit of ending up millions of years in the future when the universe is a tad different.

Anyone care to recommend any books which are similarly massive in scope, or interesting in similar ways?

Interesting Links for 07-08-2014

• Scotland's Decision - 16 questions to think about (in-depth, and impartial, AFAICT)
  (tags: Scotland independence )
• Next time someone tells you that the UK economy has recovered, point them at this graph
  (tags: uk economics visualisation recession )
• Wikipedia is now publishing the list of its pages that are being affected by the "Right to be Forgotten"
  (tags: censorship wikipedia Google )
• The woman who broke the Tetris World Record - without meaning to
  (tags: games world_record tetris )
• Dice Shameing
  (tags: dice gaming funny )
• What Do Porn Stars Get Paid?
  (tags: porn money wages )
• Procter & Gamble are shelving 2/3 of their brands. Because of modern technology
  (tags: branding marketing sales business )
• Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it'
  (tags: monkeys photography copyright funny )
• Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts are all the same species of plant
  (tags: food vegetables plants )
• The War of Guardians of the Galaxy Porn Has Been Won
  (tags: porn marvel movies funny )
• Extended cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past coming next year
  (tags: xmen movies )
• This is how I feel about perfume.
  (tags: sex smell )
• Destination Moon: The 350-Year History of Lunar Exploration
  (tags: moon space history )
• How old are the people on Tumblr?
  (tags: age demographics tumblr )
• George R R Martin at Edinburgh International Book Festival to be live-streamed
  (tags: GeorgeRRMartin Edinburgh festival )
• The inexplicable world of Asian ‘Hitler chic’
  (tags: Hitler nazis Japan fashion )
• Ant colony 'personalities' shaped by environment
  (tags: ants personality environment )
• How the rendition programme had the CIA and MI6 hand over a 12-year-old girl to Gaddafi. And then cover it up.
  (tags: cia rendition libya mi6 )
• Deficient in Vitamin D? You're up to twice as likely to develop dementia/Alzheimer's
  (tags: alzheimers vitaminD dementia )