Xeelee Sequence
The Xeelee Sequence is a series of novels and short stories by British
science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The
novels span several billons 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 birds.
Several novels also deal with humans and posthumans living in extreme conditions, such as the heart of a neutron star (Flux) or a universe with considerably stronger
Baxter's Destiny's Children series is part of this series.
The novels, in chronological order (not publication order) are:
- Coalescent (2003)
- Transcendent (Michael Poole's segment) (2005)
- Timelike Infinity (1992)
- Ring (before Great Northern launches) (1993)
- Reality Dust (2000)
- Riding the Rock (2002)
- Exultant (2005)
- Transcendent (Alia's segment) (2005)
- Raft (1991)
- Flux (1993)
- Ring (after Great Northern returns) (1994)
Chronologies including most of the short stories and novels are included in the short story collections Vacuum Diagrams and Resplendent. When asked directly for a suggested reading order, the author wrote: "I hope that all the books and indeed the stories can be read stand-alone. I’m not a great fan of books that end with cliff-hangers. So you could go in anywhere. One way would be to start with ‘Vacuum Diagrams’, a collection that sets out the overall story of the universe. Then ‘Timelike Infinity’ and ‘Ring’ which tell the story of Michael Poole, then ‘Raft’ and ‘Flux’ which are really incidents against the wider background, and finally ‘Destiny’s Children.’"[1]
See also
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Books by Stephen
Baxter
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| Xeelee Sequence: Raft – Timelike Infinity – Flux – Ring – Vacuum Diagrams – Reality Dust – Riding the Rock |
| Xeelee story elements: Great Northern - Other technology - Qax - Other species |
| Destiny's Children: Coalescent – Exultant – Transcendent – Resplendent |
| Manifold Trilogy: Time – Space – Origin – Phase Space |
| The Mammoth Trilogy: Silverhair – Longtusk – Icebones – Behemoth |
| A Time Odyssey: Time's Eye – Sunstorm – Firstborn |
| The Web Series: Gulliverzone – Webcrash |
| Time's Tapestry: Emperor – Conqueror |
| NASA Trilogy: Voyage – Titan – Moonseed |
| Others: Anti-Ice – The Time Ships – The Light of Other Days – Evolution |
| Unrelated collections: Traces – The Hunters of Pangaea |
| Non-fiction: Deep Future – Omegatropic – Ages in Chaos |
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