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Faced with certain death, a young pilot, Pirius, disobeys orders and travels into the future. rivals Asimov in its boundless vision for the future evolution of humanity.вЂќ-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. вЂњBaxter has an uncanny gift for mixing a punchy, cyberpunk cynicism with his resolutely hard SF story base. 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. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. 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. A 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. Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence. The universe has a fundamental tendency toward complexity and autocatalystic systems are easily. In the Xeelee sequence life and intelligence are ubiquitous throughout the universe. This has a profound influence on the various galactic economies and technological development of junior species. Most junior species see no benefit in developing a technology on their own when they can simply steal it from the Xeelee debris. The Xeelee frequently leave behind derelict ships, tools, and other materials giving the appearance of thoughtlessness or reckless abandon at what a junior species might do with it. Although the Xeelee seldom directly appear or take action in the stories their impact on the development of most civilizations and the universe as a whole is profound.

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Their abilities in the series far exceed that of a Type III Civilization on the Kardashev scale. They have demonstrated the ability to routinely construct Closed Timelike Curves and have exploited time travel to engineer their own evolution and history as far back as 13.5 billion years ago (within two hundred million years of the Big Bang). Within the Xeelee Sequence, they are considered to be the most advanced of all Baryonic life-forms and possess technology and abilities far beyond other spacefaring civilization. They were first remotely mentioned in the 1994 novel Timelike Infinity and were later central actors of several novels and a substantial number of short stories. Excerpt: The Xeelee are a fictional hyperadvanced species from Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence. Chapters: Xeelee sequence, Xeelee technology, Coalescent, Xeelee Sequence species, Timelike Infinity, Transcendent, Flux, Qax, Exultant, Ring, Vacuum Diagrams, Raft, A Time Odyssey, Destiny's Children, Resplendent, Manifold Trilogy, NASA Trilogy, Reality Dust, Riding the Rock, The Mammoth Trilogy.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Poole, Miriam and their party, having followed the Ghosts, must explore the artefact and survive encounters with its strange inhabitants - before Poole, at last, finds the Xeelee who led the destruction of Earth. But with time the Belt has attracted populations of lesser species, here for the immense surface area, the unending energy flows. The purpose of the Belt is to preserve a community of Xeelee into the very far future, when they will be able to tap dark energy, a universe-spanning antigravity field, for their own purposes. And because of relativistic effects, distances are compressed for inhabitants of the Belt, and time drastically slowed. But it is not at rest: it rotates at near lightspeed. If it was at rest it would have a surface area equivalent to about thirty billion Earths. If it was set in the solar system it would be out in the Oort Cloud, among the comets - but circling the sun. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital distance. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape.