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The Xeelee Sequence is a series of novels and short stories by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The novels span several billions of years, describing the future expansion of Mankind, its war with its arch-nemesis (an alien race called the Xeelee), and the Xeelee's own war with dark matter entities called photino birds. Several novels also deal with humans and posthumans living in extreme conditions, such as the heart of a neutron star (Flux) or a universe with considerably stronger gravity (Raft).

Baxter's Destiny's Children series is part of this series.

The novels, in chronological order (not publication order) are:

Title	Year	Notes
Coalescent	2003	Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 2004^[1]
Transcendent	2005	Michael Poole's segment John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 2006^[2]
Timelike Infinity	1992
Ring	1993	before Great Northern launches
Reality Dust	2000
Riding the Rock	2002
Exultant	2005
Transcendent	2005	Alia's segment John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 2006^[2]
Raft	1991	Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1992^[3]
Flux	1993
Ring	1994	after Great Northern returns

Chronologies including most of the short stories and novels are included in the short story collections Vacuum Diagrams and Resplendent. When asked directly for a suggested reading order, the author wrote: "I hope that all the books and indeed the stories can be read stand-alone. I’m not a great fan of books that end with cliff-hangers. So you could go in anywhere. One way would be to start with ‘Vacuum Diagrams’, a collection that sets out the overall story of the universe. Then ‘Timelike Infinity’ and ‘Ring’ which tell the story of Michael Poole, then ‘Raft’ and ‘Flux’ which are really incidents against the wider background, and finally ‘Destiny’s Children.’"[1]

An omnibus edition of the first four Xeelee novels; Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring, is due to be released in early 2010.[2]

[edit] References

^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
^ ^a ^b "2006 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2006. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1992. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

[edit] See also

Great Attractor

[WWE-2004-0] "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

[WWE-2006-1] "2006 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2006. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

[WWE-1992-2] "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1992. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

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