Xeelee 1-4 An Omnibus: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring
Baxter StephenStephen 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.