It’s a masterpiece, but a chilly one, its story of the evolution of symbiotic cosmic consciousness visionary but remote from ordinary human concerns. The first true future history was created by Olaf Stapledon in his novels Last and First Men, Last Men in London, and The Star Maker, starting in the teeming metropolis at the heart of the British Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, and accelerating through aeons and galaxies to a final encounter with the being at the heart of creation. While many science fiction authors have written serial stories or novels that share the same backdrop and characters, only a handful have constructed meticulously imagined, chronologically consistent future histories that encompass substantial vistas of time and space, and of those future histories, few are as ambitious as Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Sequence. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
This eBook first published in 2010 by Gollancz.Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This omnibus first published in Great Britain in 2010 by And what he finds will change his world.The right of Stephen Baxter to be identified as the author of this work, and the right of Paul McAuley to be identified as the author of the introduction, has been asserted by them in accordance with the Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials.
Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere.įive hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series!Ī spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know.
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