Destiny's Children · Book 4
Resplendent
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 579
- ISBN-13
- 9780575079830
- Type
- collection
About this book
Unlike the three novels before it, Resplendent (2006) is a short-fiction collection, and at 579 pages the longest volume in the quartet, gathering stories that fill in gaps around the trilogy's events.
Its place in Destiny's Children
Resplendent is book 4 in the Destiny's Children series. It follows 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 9780575079830
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575078956