Timelike Infinity [SEP] series
Timelike Infinity
Timelike Infinity is a 1992 science fiction book by British author Stephen Baxter. The second book in the Xeelee Sequence, "Timelike Infinity" introduces a universe of powerful alien species and technologies which manages to maintain a realistic edge due to Baxter's physics background; it largely sets the stage for the "magnum opus" of the Xeelee Sequence, "Ring" (as opposed to "Vacuum Diagrams", "Flux", or "Raft", which concern themselves with side-stories).
Plot
, the series is composed of 9 novels and 53 short pieces (short stories and novellas, with most collected in 3 anthologies), all of which fit into a fictional timeline stretching from the Big Bang's singularity of the past to the eventual heat death of the universe and "Timelike Infinity"s singularity of the future. An omnibus edition of the first four Xeelee novels ("Raft", "Timelike Infinity", "Flux", and "Ring"), entitled "Xeelee: An Omnibus", was released