Xeelee Sequence · Book 2
Timelike Infinity
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780002240161
- Type
- novel
About this book
Timelike Infinity (1992), placed between Raft and Flux in the Xeelee Sequence, is the shortest book in the series at 256 pages, following a different, disconnected pocket of humanity's scattered diaspora with Stephen Baxter's characteristic commitment to rigorously extrapolated physics.
Its place in Xeelee Sequence
Timelike Infinity is book 2 in the Xeelee Sequence series. It follows Raft. It is followed by Flux. 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 9780002240161
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451452436