Stephen Baxter. (2004). Exultant. Random House Worlds.

Stephen Baxter. 2004. Exultant. Random House Worlds.

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   • bioText: Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton (doctorate in aeroengineering research) universities. Baxter is the winner of both The British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, and has been a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. He also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is the co-author (with Arthur C. Clarke) of Time’s Eye.
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“Baxter has an uncanny gift for mixing a punchy, cyberpunk cynicism with his resolutely hard SF story base. . . . [Exultant] rivals Asimov in its boundless vision for the future evolution of humanity.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. Faced with certain death, a young pilot, Pirius, disobeys orders and travels into the future. Upon his return, Pirius is court-martialed and sentenced to penal servitude. But it is not only Pirius who pays the price. In flying into the future and back again, Pirius returned to a time before he’d left, a time inhabited by his younger self, who also receives punishment. Commissary Nilis believes that the elder Pirius, whom he dubs Pirius Blue, may know how to defeat the Xeelee. But Nilis can do nothing for Pirius Blue. Instead, he takes the younger Pirius—Pirius Red—back to Earth. There Pirius Red will discover truths that shatter his preconceived notions of all that he is fighting for, while Pirius Blue will learn even harsher truths. But the most shocking revelation of all is still to come.
“Absurdly ambitious, technically brilliant, and downright exciting.”—SFX Magazine

“Striking . . . chilling . . . [with] a triumphant conclusion.”—Starburst

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   • source: Locus
   • content: Coalescent"BAXTER IS AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM HERE: formally audacious, constantly surprising, clinically subversive of genre norms, cosmic irony always at hand to awe and undercut the reader."
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   • content: Evolution"GRIPPING . . . The perfect scientific romance of our time . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story."
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   • source: SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE
   • content: "EVOLUTION IS A WORK OF OUTRAGEOUS AMBITION. . . . What is astonishing is how successfully he brings to life a wide range of facts and conjectures, and how entertaining as well as informative this book--an episodic novel with evolution as its protagonist--manages to be."--The New York Times Book ReviewManifold: Time"A STAGGERING NOVEL! If you ever thought you understood time, you'll be quickly disillusioned when you read Manifold: Time."
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     October 25, 2004
     Military SF fans will relish the second entry in Baxter's Destiny's Children trilogy, set long after the events recounted in 2003's Coalescent
     . When navy pilot Pirius and his crew violate protocol during a skirmish with the alien Xeelee and end up capturing a ship from "mankind's most ancient and most powerful foe," instead of accolades, two versions of Pirius—Pirius Red and Pirius Blue, from different time lanes—receive punishment. Pirius Red accompanies the eccentric Nilis (we know he's odd because he never wears shoes) to the Earth system to research the captured ship and concoct a way to end the war, while Pirius Blue is sent in disgrace to the Xeelee front for army combat training. As Pirius Red explores the solar system, picking up clues to create a strategy to defeat the Xeelee by striking at their home system, Pirius Blue narrowly escapes death in combat and grows into a leader. Both come to question the doctrines that guide their lives as they realize the extent of their military conditioning. Weak characterization mars an otherwise well-told story as fast-paced action sequences flip to long, dry discussions about physics. Not content with one drop-dead hard-science idea, Baxter concatenates them, one building on the other; even his aliens represent ideas. Female readers may wish the author would take some lessons on portraying romance from Sharon Shinn. Agent, Ralph Vicinanza.

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     March 1, 2005
     Adult/High School -In humankind's Third Expansion, the species has spread throughout the galaxy and assimilated all challengers but the mysterious Xeelee; in a 20,000-year stalemate, humans have kept them at bay in the galaxy's center. Time travel (used by both sides to gather intelligence) creates numerous "drafts" of time lines, but apart from this uncertainty the endless war has brought about a strangely static human society. Soldiers and pilots are bred in vats near the Front and taught only war; few survive past their teens. When Prius, a young pilot, captures a Xeelee ship and takes it to the recent past for study, an innovative program is begun to develop new weapons technology. While Prius Blue (the pilot from the future time line, now stuck in this one) is sent to the Front, the younger Prius Red (from this time line) must travel throughout the solar system with an eccentric but brilliant scientist in a quest for knowledge needed for the anti-Xeelee weapon. Working with widely differing elements of society, Red learns many secrets he'd rather not know, adjusts to new knowledge, and grows into a leadership role: he heads up Exultant, the elite squadron tasked with deploying the new weapon. Even in a genre characterized by unfettered imagination, Baxter's future universe is extraordinary in its depth, breadth, and richness of invention. Cutting-edge physics, subtle humor, time-travel paradoxes, and loopy twists combine to give readers a wonderfully original sci-fi experience. It can be read independently of "Coalescent" (Ballantine, 2004), which is set in the same universe but mostly in the present age." -Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA"

     Copyright 2005 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 15, 2004
     In the sequel to " Coalescent" [BKL N 15 03], humanity has been at war with the Xeelee for thousands of years. Pirius becomes one of the war's temporal paradoxes by escaping a battle by means of another pilot's use of time travel. Xeelee ship in tow, he and crew return to base two years before they left. Rather than hailed as heroes, they're sent down to the infantry. Pirius Red, Pirius' two-years-younger self, and squeeze Torec go to Earth in the care of Commission for Historical Truth member Nilis, who sees opportunity to end the war in Pirius' successful maneuver in defeating the Xeelee. But the Xeelee also use time-travel paradoxes, so hiding what the good guys are doing is as essential as striking the base of Xeelee operations, the galaxy's central black hole, Chandra. Interwoven with Nilis, Pirius, and company's efforts is the story of strange ancient civilizations, a story that leads eventually to Nilis realizing Chandra's true significance. Baxter is in top form in this combination of hard science and grand adventure.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)

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For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. Faced with certain death, a young pilot, Pirius, disobeys orders and travels into the future. Upon his return, Pirius is court-martialed and sentenced to penal servitude. But it is not only Pirius who pays the price. In flying into the future and back again, Pirius returned to a time before he’d left, a time inhabited by his younger self, who also receives punishment. Commissary Nilis believes that the elder Pirius, whom he dubs Pirius Blue, may know how to defeat the Xeelee. But Nilis can do nothing for Pirius Blue. Instead, he takes the younger Pirius—Pirius Red—back to Earth. There Pirius Red...

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