Vacuum Diagrams: Short Stories In The Xeelee Sequence

ISBN: 0006498124
Author: Stephen Baxter
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A selection of short stories from Baxter's future history, known as the Xeelee sequence. These marvellous linked stories bring Baxter's widely praised future history to the door at the end of time and space... which has been opened by the fabulous Xeelee, the ultimate sentient beings, the most astonishing engineers of all time. This is book is excellent SF.

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TitanPaula Benacerraf is appointed to oversee the dismantling of the Shuttle fleet after another disaster. Instead, she listens to the scientist, Rosenberg, who wants to explore the life Cassini discovers on Titan. Humans are...
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Evolution (gollancz)From their beginnings foraging at the feet of the dinosaurs, through the apocalypse of an asteroid strike, through countless years of the day to day life and death dramas of survival of the fittest, to the rise and fall ...
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Sunstorm (gollancz)The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and em...
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Exultant (destiny's Children)Twenty-five thousand years in the future mankind is still locked in its twenty thousand year long war for survival with the Xeelee. Billions die every day and mankind's best soldiers are children, bred to fight and die. ...
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TracesStories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind. There are vision of histories which differ from our own, either...
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