Xeelee Vengeance, Stephen Baxter
Xeelee Vengeance, Stephen Baxter
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Xeelee: Vengeance

Author: Stephen Baxter

Narrator: Dudley Hinton

Unabridged: 13 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 06/15/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.

Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee.

The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them.

A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to reorder history more to the Xeelee's liking. That million-year war with humankind was one blemish. It had to be erased. And in order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history...

Read by Dudley Hinton

(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

About Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. With Terry Pratchett he has co-authored the Long Earth novels. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.Visit Stephen Baxter's website at www.stephen-baxter.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Apatt

Xeelee is an omnibus book containing: Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring The above four titles are linked to my review of each individual volume. The titles are ordered in the book by publication dates but I find that reading the books in this order did not work for me as Timelike Infinity and Ring are clo......more

Goodreads review by Stevie

I got into Stephen Baxter because the idea of a series that spanned all the way from the Big Bang to the last star in the universe winking out was absolutely irresistable to me. About a year ago I read all the synopsis of books featured on the various "Greatest Space Opera's of all time" lists. The s......more

RAFT Dans cette histoire, à la base une nouvelle, nous suivons un groupe de quelques milliers d’humains, entrés par accident dans un univers parallèle, à la force gravitationnelle très forte ; les étoiles y sont minuscules, les planètes n’ont jamais pu se former. Ils vivent dans une nébuleuse, dans......more


Quotes

A sense of grandeur few other SF novelists can even hope to match. SFX MAGAZINE

Sense-of-wonder is clearly Baxter's middle name. CONCATENATION