Xeelee. Stephen Baxter's Xeelee novels span no less than a million years of alternate history, from the dying days of the Roman Empire to the well, I won't spoil it. Think big. And then quite a lot bigger than that. Most of the novels are set within the next , years. · Another one of Baxter's Xeelee sequence, Endurance is a collection of 11 long stories, spanning through millions of years. There is no connection between the stories, besides their adherence to the universe's timeline that Baxter devised for the sequence. The /5(73). The Xeelee Sequence is a series of novels and short stories which span several billions of years, describing the future expansion of Mankind, its war with its arch-nemesis (an alien race called the Xeelee), and the Xeelee's own war with dark matter entities called photino www.doorway.ru: Stephen Baxter.
Check out the Wikipedia entry for the Xeelee Sequence. It quotes Baxter when he was asked for a reading order. However, even he states that it's just one way to go about it. Personally, I like the idea of sticking to publication order. While the events of the universe will be out of order, you can see the universe as it gets developed and. Stephen Baxter's epic sequence of Xeelee novels was introduced to a new generation of readers with his highly successful quartet, Destiny's Children, published by Gollancz between and But the sequence of novels began with RAFT in From there it built into perhaps the most ambitious fictitious universe ever created. The Xeelee are a hyperadvanced species from Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence. They were first mentioned in the novel Timelike Infinity and were later central to several novels and a substantial number of short stories. Within the Xeelee Sequence, they are considered to be the most advanced of all Baryonic life-forms and possess technology and abilities far beyond other spacefaring.
He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee. The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them. The Xeelee Sequence is a series of hard science fiction space opera novels, novellas, and short stories written by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The series spans billions of years of fictional history, centering on humanity's future expansion into the universe, its intergalactic war with an enigmatic and supremely powerful Kardashev Type IV alien civilization called the Xeelee, and the Xeelee's own cosmos-spanning war with dark matter entities called Photino Birds. The series fe. The Xeelee Sequence is a very conceptual focused work which means that Mr. Baxter developes new and strange concepts that perfectly fit together when reading the books in the way I suggested above. A reading-order using Baxters Timeline realy doesn't make that much sense, because temporal manipulation using dozens of various tools of time-travel is one of the core-themes of this gigantic story-arc.
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