Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473217148
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A new series that will chart the different evolutionary futures for mankind and chronicle a war that has been fought since the first nano-seconds after the Big Bang to the impossibly distant future. Collects for the first time in one volume: Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent It is a story that begins with a vivid depiction of the decline of the Roman Empire and which, down through the years, shows how one woman's determination to protect her daughter has such frightening consequences for mankind's future existence. For in that future twenty-five thousand years from now, mankind is still locked in its twenty-thousand year long war for survival with the Xeelee. Also included is Resplendent: a collection of stories that encompasses mankind's epic fight for survival against the Xeelee, a narrative of how man will change and evolve over our epic journey out into the universe.
Language: en
Pages: 2208
Pages: 2208
A new series that will chart the different evolutionary futures for mankind and chronicle a war that has been fought since the first nano-seconds after the Big Bang to the impossibly distant future. Collects for the first time in one volume: Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent It is a story that
Language: en
Pages: 528
Pages: 528
Twenty-five thousand years in the future mankind is still locked in its twenty thousand year long war for survival with the Xeelee. Billions die every day and mankind's best soldiers are children, bred to fight and die. The war has gone well but has now stalled at the galaxy's core,
Language: en
Pages: 528
Pages: 528
Baxter's ability to combine wildly divergent narrative threads has become a trademark of his writing and has been seen to its best effect in the previous two novels from this sequence. TRANSCENDENT, with its melding of a near future narrative that carries a terrible warning about the post-oil and post-global
Language: en
Pages: 70
Pages: 70
Author and leader who is also a servant; a motivator who is also a steward; a teacher: conscientious and innovative; a counselor: compassionate yet assertive. A man of integrity and honor; Elder Sean D. Smith is not only a minister but a visionary. While Webster’s dictionary defines excellence as the
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
“The tale of a boy whose destiny turned his ordinary life into a roller coaster ride. The book tells the tale of a journey of friendship, love, betrayals and realities of life. It’sa game of survival against fate. It’s about the art of living by the rules of life. It’s
Language: en
Pages: 608
Pages: 608
RESPLENDENT is a collection of stories that encompasses mankind's epic fight for survival against the Xeelee, a narrative of how man will change and evolve over our epic journey out into the universe. These tales will encompass the rise of sub-molecular empires in the first nanoseconds after the Big Bang
Language: en
Pages: 26
Pages: 26
Since 1996, Megawati Soekarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia's founding father, Soekarno, emerged on the Indonesian political scene with the mantle of heir apparent to her father's still popular legacy. In that year Megawati, whose growing popularity alarmed the Soeharto regime, was removed as leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) by
Language: en
Pages: 496
Pages: 496
“Lean, taut storytelling . . . breakneck stuff . . . Arguably his most accessible book to date—Baxter [is] resplendent.”—SFX magazine When his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called
Language: en
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Language: en
Pages: 544
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The beginning of a new trilogy from perhaps the most significant SF writer of the 21st century and co-author with Terry Pratchett of the Long Earth books The first in a new trilogy that will chart different evolutionary futures for mankind, COALESCENT is the story of a divergent strain of