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Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 Free FREE TRANSCENDENT: DESTINYS CHILDREN BOOK 3 PDF Stephen Baxter | 528 pages | 14 Sep 2006 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575078147 | English | London, United Kingdom Transcendent (Destiny's Children, book 3) by Stephen Baxter Transcendent is the third novel in the Destiny's Children series by Stephen Baxterand a Campbell Award nominee. The story alternates between two timelines: the world of Michael Poole in the yearand that of Alia, a posthuman girl who lives approximately half a million years in the future. Engineer Michael Poole is recovering from the death of Morag, his pregnant wife. Poole works as a consultant designing space propulsion systems, and dreams of being able to one day explore the stars. However, there are more pressing matters; humanity faces a serious bottleneckwith the Earth reeling from the effects of anthropogenic climate change and resource depletion; automobile production has all but ceased, except for hydrogen-based mass transit, and air travel is limited to the very rich. Due to climate change, the oceans have become dead zones, with rising sea levels and severe weather displacing millions. While working in Siberia, Michael's son Tom is injured by an explosion of methane gas from previously frozen hydratessuddenly released from the now-melting tundra. Michael begins to research whether this is an isolated incident or the beginning of something more serious. With the help of an artificial sentience named Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3, he discovers that a potential release of all such frozen greenhouse gasses could destabilise the environment enough to make the Earth untenable for human habitation, in a repeat of the Permian extinction. Michael consults members of the Poole family, who come together to work on the problem. Tom, John, and the elderly George a principal character of Coalescent reunite, and a maverick geoengineering company funds the project. Michael designs a subsurface refrigeration system that could stabilise the frozen hydrates. Meanwhile, Michael continues to be haunted by visions of his dead wife, apparitions he has been seeing his entire life, even before he first met her. He becomes obsessed with discovering the origin of this phenomenon, and his quest for Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 drives a wedge between him and his family. Aunt Rosa Poole from Coalescenta Catholic priest and ex-member of the Order, helps Michael research the problem, drawing on her vast knowledge, stemming in small part from her relationship with the Coalescent hive and its historical archives. The rest of the Poole family joins the investigation when Morag appears during a trial test Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 the engineering project. This time, everyone sees Morag, even observing drones recording the event. After the project is bombed by a terrorist group, Morag goes from being an apparition to reincarnating in physical reality. This frightens everyone, even Michael. As part of a government program called the "Redemption", Alia is obligated to witness the life Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 Michael Poole, from start to finish. Pressured Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 her family to leave the ship, Alia becomes a candidate for the Transcendence, a collective group of immortal posthumans who are attempting to evolve into a form of godhoodin effect leaving their humanity behind. After travelling the galaxy and observing several posthuman life forms, Alia travels to Earth to meet the Transcendence. Alia learns the Transcendence is attempting to redeem the past suffering of all humans, first by witnessing every single one as Alia witnessed, then by living as every single human and experiencing everything that they experienced. However, since observing is not seen as Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 for redemption, the Transcendence ultimately desires to erase all suffering in the past, thereby ensuring that every human that could have existed does so. Lastly, if that is seen as too great a task, the Transcendence is prepared to reach back in time and stop humans from ever existing, thereby "erasing" the suffering that they Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 to redeem. Upset about the goals of the Transcendence, Alia makes her way Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 to the Nordonly to find that it has been attacked in an attempt to get her to go back and face the Transcendence by a group who believes the Redemption is a mistake. Upon returning to the Transcendence, Alia agrees to find a human who can join the Transcendence long enough to debate the Redemption and help them find the best course of action. To do so, Alia projects herself into the past, to the time of Michael Poole. She appears to him as his Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 wife, but changes into her true form, that of a different small, hairy primate, a form evolved for low gravity environments. Alia convinces Michael to face the Transcendence. After an initial period of adjustment Michael makes contact with the Transcendence. Able to see both sides of the argument, Michael forgives the Transcendence for their meddling, but asks that they stop their efforts. Michael is returned to his own time, where he successfully completes the refrigeration project. The Kuiper anomaly, first introduced in Coalescent Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3, disappears, and is revealed to be related to Alia's connection with Michael, having first appeared in the solar system at the time of Michael's birth. In the far future, the Transcendence collapses and the Witnessing program is shut down. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Transcendent First edition. Dewey Decimal. Worlds Without End. Retrieved 15 May Works by Stephen Baxter. Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent. Time Space Origin Phase Space. Silverhair Longtusk Icebones. Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn. Gulliverzone Webcrash. Emperor Conqueror Navigator Weaver. Voyage Titan Moonseed. Flood Ark. Proxima Ultima. Traces The Hunters of Pangaea. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. First edition. Destiny's Children | Penguin Random House Canada Destiny's Children is a science-fiction series by Stephen Baxter. It takes place within his larger series, the Xeelee Sequence. Like his previous Manifold Trilogythe books are not direct sequels to one another, but are instead thematically linked by the appearance of concepts, themes, and sometimes characters in multiple Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3. Examples of this include:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Examples of this include: A coalescence is visited in all three novels. The Kuiper Anomaly, a tetrahedral Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 that appears in the Kuiper beltis discovered in Coalescentmentioned briefly in Exultantand finally explained in Transcendent. Each book deals in some way with the future evolution of humans, both physically and sociologically. For example, Coalescent discusses the ability of humans living with limited space and resources to evolve a society that resembles insect hives. Transcendent deals with several post-human forms that are found to have evolved to adapt planets that they colonized. The theme is present in Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 insofar as the novel deals with humanity as evolved to fight a war that has lasted tens of thousands of years. Each book further deals in some way with the existence and identity of God. For example, Exultant suggests that there was consciousness present before the Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 began that selected this universe for its ability to sustain life. Transcendent discusses a group of humans that have transcended to a higher consciousness as becoming a Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3, and uses established theology to attempt to dissect the Transcendent's motives. Books in the series: Coalescent - Arthur C. Worlds Without End. Retrieved Works by Stephen Baxter. Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent. Time Space Origin Phase Space. Silverhair Longtusk Icebones. Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn. Gulliverzone Webcrash. Emperor Conqueror Navigator Weaver. Voyage Titan Moonseed. Flood Ark. Proxima Ultima. Traces The Hunters of Pangaea. Categories : Book series introduced in Science fiction book series Stephen Baxter series Xeelee sequence Kuiper belt in fiction s science fiction novel stubs. Hidden categories: All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. This article about a s science fiction novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. Transcendent (novel) - Wikipedia Introducing Geralt the Witcher - Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 and hated - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity. Out of stock. Baxter's ability to combine wildly divergent narrative threads has become a trademark of his writing and has been seen to its best effect in the previous two novels from this sequence. At once a cautionary Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3 of what we are capable of destroying and a celbration of what we could become this is the capstone to Baxter's best series to date. Sign up to the hive. Discover bookshops local to you. Enter your postcode and search for your nearest Hive network shop. Student Discount Reviews Help Contact. Click here to login. Menu Books. Shop Now. Compelling and beautifully wrought Toffee Allison is used to hiding who she really Transcendent: Destinys Children Book 3, and trying to be what other people want her to be. Funko Pop! Gruffalo Tote Bag Shop Now. On Offer Where to go when Dreaming of your next adventure? 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