Russell's ebook Library
1 - Raft
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [1]: Stephen Baxter’s highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence.A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as stro...
2 - Timelike Infinity
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [2]: Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting… The second novel in Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee sequence.First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even imm...
3 - Flux
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [3]: Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe.Stephen Baxter's third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic an...
4 - Ring
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [4]: Michael Poole's "wormholes" constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never...
5 - Vacuum Diagrams
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [5]: Baxter’s future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels, Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring, and these marvellous linked stories.The stories are like pearls on the timeline...
6 - Xeelee: Endurance
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [6]: Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this selection of uncollected and unpublished stories, newly edited and placed in chronological reading order.From tales chartin...
7 - Xeelee: Vengeance
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [7]: 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...
8 - Xeelee: Redemption
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [8]: Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape...This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousa...