Vacuum Diagrams: 5 (Xeelee Sequence) - Softcover

Baxter, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061059048 ISBN 13: 9780061059049

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2001

Synopsis

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..."

This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.

Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time.

Stephen Baxter is the most acclaimed and accomplished of a brilliant new generation of authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking itto a new golden age.

About this title

Review:

"One of the best in science fiction."-- "Science Fiction Chronicle""An epic of struggle and success."-- Don D'Ammassa, "Cleveland Plain Dealer""Enormously impressive."-- "Locus""Mind-stretching science fiction at its boldest."-- "Orlando Sentinel"

From the Back Cover:

THE XEELEE SEQUENCE
Stephen Baxter’s history of the universe

While the human race struggles against alien oppressors, an even greater epic battle rages between the deadly dark-matter photino birds and their implacable enemy, the Xeelee ...

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.

“Baxter sends into free-fall the most awesome ideas in science fiction today”
THE TIMES

“ ... the reaction is that which C.S. Lewis referred to when he described science fiction as the only genuine consciousness expanding drug”
NEW SCIENTIST

“A fine and important collection”
INTERZONE

“A luminous collection ... Baxter can overwhelm you with a traditional SF ‘sense of wonder’ until your jaw drops”
SFX

“This book’s depth almost produces vertigo – a classic in the making”
EXAMINER

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0061059048
• ISBN 13: 9780061059049
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 512