Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius. For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity’s greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs. The universal structure of such AFTI space-times is discussed.

This includes several sequences: the Xeelee sequence the Manifold Trilogy the Mammoth Trilogy the Destiny’s Children sequence the Time’s Tapestry series, and the Time Odyssey trilogy. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. A definition of asymptotic flatness at timelike infinity for isolated systems is proposed. Stephen Baxter, one of Britain’s leading science-fiction authors, is an incredibly prolific writer, producing almost 50 works in less than two decades. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Recording for various labels since the 90s such as Elektrix, Satamile. Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.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.įirst there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Mixing analog synths with synthetic beats crossing over from electro/wave to deep/techno.

Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. 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.įirst there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality.

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