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 Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter
Newest Review: ... evident, only these) tools, dependent on them, will be the future, or at least something like it. With an entirely imposed ... more  ... and artificial plot, this is no mean achievement. He is playing with the entire universe, and is not afraid to bend it to suit. He knows the equations which say it can, after all. The universe is being eaten, essentially, by sentient creatures composed of dark matter, nulloforming the stars to their own extinguished preference, which is rather hard on we baryonic lifeforms who are dependent on them. I don't think that anywhere in the Xeelee sequence does the reader actually meet a photino bird or have one have...more |
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Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter: In this postmodern age he is the closest we come to a reborn ... (896 words)
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Stephen Baxter's collection of short stories set in the Xeelee Sequence; they make up the spine of his history of the future. Find a copy and look at the praise heaped upon it, and look at who has heaped it upon. Sort of gets you right there, doesn't it? To be honest, this is one of the books not that reviewers- and fellow authors- judge but that they are judged by the comments they pass upon. In this postmodern age he is the closest we come to a reborn Arthur C. Clarke- and if you thought he wasn't already dead yet, look at the quality of some of the stuff he's produced in the late eighties and nineties. Anyway. Baxter is a physicist, ... Read the complete review
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