Destiny's Children · Book 2
Exultant
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9780345457882
- Type
- novel
About this book
Exultant (2004), at 512 pages twenty-four longer than the opener, leaps tens of thousands of years forward into the brutal endgame of the Xeelee war within Stephen Baxter's Destiny's Children quartet, following a fighter pilot in humanity's increasingly desperate campaign.
Its place in Destiny's Children
Exultant is book 2 in the Destiny's Children series. It follows Coalescent. It is followed by Transcendent. See the full Destiny's Children reading order.
Set within Stephen Baxter's wider Xeelee Sequence universe, the Destiny's Children quartet is a more tightly connected story than the core Xeelee novels, tracing a single bloodline across an immense span of future history. Coalescent (2003) splits between a present-day Manchester storyline and the secret history of a hidden, hive-like religious sisterhood founded in the twilight of Roman Britain -- a society that has been quietly manipulating human evolution toward eusociality for fifteen centuries. Exultant…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345457882
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575076556