Transcendent

Its place in Destiny's Children

Transcendent is book 3 in the Destiny's Children series. It follows Exultant. It is followed by Resplendent. 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…