This has a profound influence on the various galactic economies and technological development of junior species. Most junior species see no benefit in developing a technology on their own when they can simply steal it from the Xeelee debris. The Xeelee frequently leave behind derelict ships, tools, and other materials giving the appearance of thoughtlessness or reckless abandon at what a junior species might do with it. Their abilities in the series far exceed that of a Type III Civilization on the Kardashev scale.Īlthough the Xeelee seldom directly appear or take action in the stories their impact on the development of most civilizations and the universe as a whole is profound. They have demonstrated the ability to routinely construct Closed Timelike Curves and have exploited time travel to engineer their own evolution and history as far back as 13.5 billion years ago (within two hundred million years of the Big Bang). Within the Xeelee Sequence, they are considered to be the most advanced of all Baryonic life-forms and posses technology and abilities far beyond other spacefaring civilization. They were first remotely mentioned in the 1994 novel Timelike Infinity and were later central actors of several novels and a substantial number of short stories. This is a landmark in SF.The Xeelee are a hyperadvanced species from Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence. It looks not just at the morality of war but at the morality of survival and our place in the universe. Along the way it examines questions of physics, the nature of reality, the evolution of mankind and its possible future. Beginning with the rise and fall of sub-quantum civilisations in the first nano-seconds after the Big Bang and ending with the heat death of the universe billions of years from now the series charts the story of mankinds epic war against the ancient and unknowable. From there it built into perhaps the most ambitious fictitious universe ever created. But the sequence of novels began with RAFT in 1991. Stephen Baxter's epic sequence of Xeelee novels was introduced to a new generation of readers with his highly successful quartet, Destiny's Children, published by Gollancz between 20. The books that launched Stephen Baxter's career the creation of one of the most astonishingly ambitious universes in SF's history: brought together in one astounding volume. Description for Xeelee: An Omnibus: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring Paperback.
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