Xeelee Sequence

by Books LLC

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Xeelee Technology, Coalescent, Timelike Infinity, Xeelee Sequence Species, Transcendent, Qax, Ring, Flux, Vacuum Diagrams, Xeelee Sequence, Exultant, Raft, Destiny's Children, Resplendent, Spline, Reality Dust, Riding the Rock. Excerpt: Coalescent Coalescent is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter . It is part one of the Destiny's Children series, and is set in two different time periods: modern Britain, when George Poole finds that he has a previously unknown sister and follows a trail to a mysterious and ancient organisation in Rome (Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins); and the time of Regina, a girl growing up during the ending of Roman rule in Britain, around AD 400. Coalescent was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2004. Plot summary The book consists of four distinct parts. The primary purpose of part one is the introduction of the characters, in ancient Britain and the present. Part two introduces a modern first-person view of the Order in Rome while following Regina's budding legacy centuries before. Part three hosts the clash and resolution of Poole and the Order's realities. Part four is a look eons into Humanity's Expansion into the Universe and provides a conclusion in George Poole's present. Part one George Poole George Poole copes with the mid-life crisis of losing his father. He meets Peter McLachlan, an eccentric member of an online free-thinking group called the Slan(t)ers. George Poole uncovers an old picture showing a sister he never knew. Poole also discovers that his father regularly donated large sums of money to an organisation called the "Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins." Combined with a sense of futility in determining his future and encouragement from both his former wife Linda and Peter, Poole decides to uncover th...

66 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 2010