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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.
- Sales Rank: #414021 in Books
- Published on: 2010
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.45" h x 2.32" w x 6.85" l, 2.61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Certainly among the greatest works of imagination ever
By Cliente Amazon
I don't have words to define what Baxter's Xeelee saga encompasses. So I will try to say what it is not. It is not your ordinary space opera, in fact it is not an space opera at all, despite a war in space (and out of it) spanning the age of the universe. It is not a distopia or an utopia, despite depicting many societies with these traits. It is not military fiction even though militarism stamps its mark thorough the work. It is not hard sci-fi while being based on hard sci-fi premises. It is not a treatise on alien societies but it depicts a few of the most interesting and awe inspiring aliens I ever seen! Well, it transcends sci-fi, or, maybe, it defines what sci-fi is.
If I was to try to define it imperfectly I would say that the Xeelee saga is the amalgamation of David Brin's Uplift Series with Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker and Last and First Men, getting the best traits of each of these incredibly creative masters of sci-fi/philosophy. The sense of wonder we get when reading Sapledon's works is there. The vividness of Brin's depictions of strange extraterrestrial beings and that deep, deep past history our petty human minds can't comprehend is also there. I didn't read the Xeelee saga, I savored it. And I felt a hollow when it ended.
I can't recommend this book enough!
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
There is no limit to the author's imagination
By R. Ottero
(Reader, beware: English is not my native language and I have little formal training in it, as I pratically learned it reading books with a dictionary by my side. So, *do* expect spelling and grammar mistakes; I will gladly accept corrections and comments about these.)
It is very sad for me to rate this marvelous work with only 3 stars, but this rating system permits just an absolute, unified grade, so I will hopefully explain why I did it in the next lines.
Just for his imagination, this author deserves a 6 or 7 star, out of 5 :-) It is tremendously impressive his mental jumps, projections and general world building. This book brings the reader across several million years of history, with a plot that is not so easily guessed (except where the writer foreshadowed some things).
I think he was highly successful in creating a fascinanting world, daring to impose himself a huge challenge, in creating a plot that not only encompasses humanity evolution across eons but also includes some extraterrestrial races in it, taking great risks of losing his control of the flux of the events - but do not fear, the author did not fail!
Now, the things that I disliked to the point I feel myself unable to score above 3 in the rating.
1. To the appreciation of the Xeelee Universe, both books 1 & 3 are totally unnecessary! They do not add anything in its understanding, they are like side stories, that could easily be removed from the omnibus without any perceptible loss of context. They do not reference the main events of the Xeelee, except in a tangent way and only in book 3 (if my memory is not betraying myself). Book 1 and 3, albeit great books in themselves, should be catalogued as side stories to the Xeelee sequence, not essencial ones.
2. I felt that the book devoted excessive pages to character development, to the point of hindering the reading rhythm. It dedicated several pages to describe inner conflicts of some main characters, sometimes in a repetive fashion - in my opinion, that is. In this topic, I consider Arthur Clarke`s Rama I to be a perfect balance between character development and hard sci-fi plot weaving.
3. The writer explored several times the high-tech-society-losing-its-knowledges-and-restarting-anew theme, which annoyed me a little. It was correctly and coherently applied, but I felt that it made the plot kind of repetitive.
4. The writer`s style of describing his world sometimes is very frustrating, in which you have to read several chapters to begin to really understand the scenario, and a lot of times he simply dropped some concepts without further explanation, so the reader (at least myself) becomes kind of disoriented in trying to comprehend the events. He is the kind of writer that keeps the reader in the dark about certain things, letting him guessing what is really going on. Albeit this is a great writing tool, the author misused this plot device and the text sometimes got boring or unencouraging.
5. A lot of unnecessary descriptions, comments or `scenes` in the books. I like the writing school that says that if a line (or even a word) does not move the plot ahead, it should not exist. I had the impression that the author was very prolix in several passages, deviating from the main plot to describe events that, in the end, did not add anything to the history.
6. Particulary in book 4 but occurring in less degree in others, there are scientific descriptions that are not easily understood by laymen as myself and that are not explained in the plot. In the other hand, some simpler concepts were described at exhaustion in all books. I am not a complete layman in Physics, Astronomy or Cosmology, but of course I do not compare to a physicist - so, if I felt myself kind of lost in some scientific explanations, a total layman probably will be in a worse situation than me.
7. Again in book 4, in some passages the author acted as a tourist guide of the Universe, describing stars, galaxies and the like in a excess I did not appreciate. In fact, I skimmed some of these passages, as they were repetitive and anticlimactic.
Overall, I think the text could have used some revision and some restructuring.
In spite of these points I made, I recommend the book to any hard sci-fi fan, because of the author`s fantastic imagination.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Great writer, deserves reading !
By Mr. J. Speak
I love Baxter, and really think he is one of the most talented new generation of Sci fi writers. His 'science' is much more believable than many other writers, and I like his BIG perspective on things. Its scale is in light years and, often involving concepts outside of our univers and time-scale, leaving you humbled, and always thoughtful of our tiny little planet, and how vulnerable it is.... highly recommended.
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