“Timelike Infinity” is actually the novel that lays the groundwork for this cycle and it’s also the first in which Xeelee are actually mentioned. “ Raft” is considered the first novel in the Xeelee Sequence but only because it was the first written by Stephen Baxter and it’s loosely connected to the others. Thus he gets in touch with the future Qax and one of them emerges from the wormhole with the intention to exterminate humanity using technologies of the powerful and mysterious Xeelee. When the Qax Governor realizes that the rebels managed to escape into the past, he decides to create another wormhole which has the other end five hundred years into the future. The Friends of Wigner have a clear plan but they don’t intend to tell anyone before the right time has come. A rebel group called the Friends of Wigner are able to build a spaceship that enters into one end of a wormhole created about fifteen centuries before by the famous scientist Michael Poole. In the 50th century, mankind is under the Qax dominion. It’s considered the second novel in the Xeelee Sequence. The novel “Timelike Infinity” by Stephen Baxter was published for the first time in 1992. Xeelee Sequence omnibus by Stephen Baxter containing the novels: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring
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