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Zusatztext a...terrific compilation of stories! best read as a companion to the novels! but strong enough to stand on its own. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent science fiction writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK! US! Germany and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife. Klappentext Great science fiction with extensive following. The Xeelee Sequence is a series of novels and short stories by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The novels span several billions 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. The books that launched Stephen Baxter's career; the creation of one of the most astonishingly ambitious universes in SF's history: brought together in one astounding volume. Stephen Baxter's epic sequence of Xeelee novels was introduced to a new generation of readers with his highly successful quartet! Destiny's Children! published by Gollancz between 2003 and 2006. But the sequence of novels began with RAFT in 1991.From there it built into perhaps the most ambitious fictitious universe ever created. Beginning with the rise and fall of sub-quantum civilisations in the first nano-seconds after the Big Bang and ending with the heat death of the universe billions of years from now the series charts the story of mankinds epic war against the ancient and unknowable alien race the Xeelee.Along the way it examines questions of physics! the nature of reality! the evolution of mankind and its possible future. It looks not just at the morality of war but at the morality of survival and our place in the universe.This is a landmark in SF. Zusammenfassung Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this selection of uncollected and unpublished stories! newly edited and placed in chronological reading order. From tales charting the earliest days of man's adventure to the stars to stories of Old Earth! four billion years in the future! the range and startling imagination of Baxter is always on display. As humanity rises and falls! ebbs and flows! one thing is always needed - the ability to endure. Contains eleven short stories and novellas. ...
