Series
Xeelee
Stephen Baxter & uncredited · 9 novels · 10 novellas · 13 novelettes · 53 short stories · 4 collections · 1987–2018
The Xeelee Sequence is a series of hard science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories written by British author Stephen Baxter. The series spans billions of years of fictional history, exploring humanity's future expansion into the universe, its intergalactic war with the Xeelee, a supremely advanced Kardashev Type V alien civilization, and the Xeelee's own conflict with dark matter entities known as Photino Birds. The Xeelee are described as symbiotic entities composed of spacetime defects, Bose–Einstein condensates, and baryonic matter.
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The order the books came out.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
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Xeelee at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1980s8
- 1990s32
- 2000s32
- 2010s17
Shape
9 novels · 10 novellas · 13 novelettes · 53 short stories · 4 collections
1 author
reads like:science fictionaliensspacefar futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 81% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book43 of 89 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Coalescentdarkest
- Gravity Dreamsbrightest
- Mayflower IIcalmest
- The Chop Linemost intense