Xeelee Sequence · Book 3
Flux
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN-13
- 9780002240253
- Type
- novel
About this book
Flux (1993), placed between Timelike Infinity and Ring in the Xeelee Sequence, spans 376 pages and follows engineered symbiotic life inside a star -- one of the wildly different physical settings Stephen Baxter uses across the four core novels to explore humanity's minor role in the Xeelee's war against dark matter.
Its place in Xeelee Sequence
Flux is book 3 in the Xeelee Sequence series. It follows Timelike Infinity. It is followed by Ring. See the full Xeelee Sequence reading order.
Stephen Baxter's signature achievement is a hard-SF future history spanning from the near future to the death of the universe and beyond, built around the Xeelee, an ancient, almost incomprehensibly advanced species locked in a cosmic-scale war against dark matter creatures for control of the universe's baryonic matter -- a war humanity discovers it is, at best, a minor participant in. Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Flux (1993) and Ring (1994) form the core of the original sequence, each following…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002240253