Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting. 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. But the sequence of novels began with RAFT in 1991. Once mankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans.From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America.In 1762, after the French and Indian War, France secretly ceded New France to Spain, per the Treaty of Fontainebleau. 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. 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. Read 118 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Earth became a vast factory for alien foodstuffs. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed.
Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality.
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