Timelike Infinity

Stephen Baxter

ISBN 10: 0451452437 / ISBN 13: 9780451452436

Published by Ace, 1993

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0451452437I5N00

Synopsis:

Pursued by the Qax and their great, sentient ships, a band of rebels escapes into the past, where they find allies from fifteen hundred years ago

From the Back Cover:

TIMELIKE INFINITY: THE STRANGE REGION AT THE END OF TIME WHERE THE XEELEE, OWNERS OF THE UNIVERSE, ARE WAITING...

First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Earth became a vast factory for alien foodstuffs.

Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail.

Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.

A novel in the Xeelee sequence

'Baxter sends into freefall the most awesome ideas in science fiction today'
THE TIMES

Bibliographic Details

Title: Timelike Infinity
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket