FREERESPLENDENT: DESTINYS CHILDREN BOOK FOUR EBOOK Stephen Baxter | 608 pages | 13 Sep 2007 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575079830 | English | London, United Kingdom Stephen Baxter: Books 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 books. 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 artifact 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 Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four 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 Exultant 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 Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four way with the existence and identity of God. For example, Exultant suggests that there was consciousness present before the universe began that selected this universe for its ability to sustain life. Transcendent discusses a group of humans that have transcended Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four a higher consciousness as becoming a god, 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 Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four 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. Destiny's Children - Wikipedia These tales will encompass the rise of sub-molecular empires in the first nanoseconds after the Big Bang to mankind's final transformation. Full of cutting-edge science, descriptions of time and space on a mind-boggling scale and memorable, all-too-human characters. It is both the capstone to one of the most significant series in the history of SF and a remarkable achievement in its own right. This is a mature and uniquely talented writer at the height of his powers. Xeelee: Vacuum Diagrams. Alternate Histories. The Science of Avatar. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four writer of his generation. Born in he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife. The Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four According to Anna. The Abyssinian Proof. The Camel Bookmobile. The Light of Evening. The Unfinished Novel and Other stories. From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest. Self's Punishment. Your cart Close. Go Search. Download Image Download Image. Imprint Gollancz Gollancz. The final volume in Baxter's keynote series Destiny's Children. More books by Stephen Baxter. Left loading Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four also viewed. Find a book you'll love, get our newsletter name email. YES I have read and consent to Hachette Australia using my personal information or data as set out in its Privacy Policy and I understand I have the right to withdraw my consent at any time. This website uses cookies. Using this website means you are okay with this but you can find out more and learn how to manage your cookie choices here. Close cookie policy overlay. Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four by Stephen Baxter - Books - Hachette Australia Resplendent is an English language science fiction Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four by British writer Stephen Baxterpublished in Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four is the fourth and final book in the Destiny's Children series. This book is a collection of short stories relating to the previous three books, comprising new works and previously published stories, including the novellas Reality DustRiding the Rock and Mayflower IIan page novella taking place in the Xeelee Sequence that won the BSFA Award for the Best Short Fiction. The short stories have been arranged into an overall narrative with brief single page interludes by the character Luru Parz, from the first story in the book. When read in series they form a history as seen by her up until the final story of the book. Reality Dust is the Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four work in the Xeelee Sequence. The protagonist, one "Hama", an investigator for Earth's Truth Commission, is investigating the surviving Qax-collaborators as the Qax restricted access to AS- anti- senescence technology — to collaborators, they are rather old, and are known as "Pharaohs" ; he follows one renegade Pharaoh to Callisto. Riding the Rock is the seventh work in the Xeelee Sequence. The plot is set in the Third Expansion era, in which humanity has thrown off the successive yokes of the Squeem and the Qax, and has been so successful that it is second only to the Xeelee among baryonic races. However, humanity's jealousy has driven it to futilely and brutally dedicate their culture sending soldiers off as young as 13 to warring for over 18, years upon the Xeelee. The characters engage in quasi- trench warfare against the Xeelee in the galactic core. Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four II is the eighth work in the Xeelee Sequence. The plot centers on five generation ships leaving a doomed planet. As thousands of years pass, the humans forget that they are on a spaceship and begin running its mechanisms only through religious ritual. After 25, years, the humans on the ship have split in their evolution with half becoming short-lived childlike tribal people and half becoming cannibalistic animals. The ending speaks to the fact that although this situation seems gruesome and terrible that life and evolution find a way and that humans found a way to continue on living even if it meant giving up what is traditionally thought of as human. The story begins on Pluto in the distant future. Its inhabitants, former collaborators of the Qax, humanity's erstwhile conquerors, are under attack from the new-formed Coalition, seeking revenge for humanity's enslavement. As such, the inhabitants send five generation ships out of the solar system in the hopes that they will be able to form colonies of their own that can survive the Coalition. Rusel, the protagonist, is admitted onto Mayflower IIone of the ships, at the last minute. Shortly after takeoff, it is revealed that the ship's intended destination is outside the galaxy, requiring a flight time of 50, subjective years, even with the effects of time dilation. The ship's captain selects a few individuals to receive medical treatment granting them immortality, allowing them to guide the ship through its millennia-long voyage. Over time, however, these individuals die through malfunctions or boredom, leaving Rusel as the only immortal on board, but he becomes increasingly dependent on life-support and gradually merges with the ship. Over time, the other inhabitants of the ship form several different societies, gradually becoming detached from their original humanity. Eventually, they form an almost unrecognisable Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four civilisation. Having forgotten that they are on a spaceship at all, they only Resplendent: Destinys Children Book Four it through religious tradition. After 25, years have passed, the Mayflower II is contacted by Pirius and Torec protagonists of Exultantformer soldiers of the Coalition, which is revealed to have fallen. They offer to remove the inhabitants from the ship and care for them elsewhere. Rusel, now completely merged with the ship's systems, allows them to do so. Pirius and Torec then leave Rusel to continue into space without the burden of the crew, which he gladly accepts. The Siege of Earth is the final story contained within the book, it details an encounter between a young person from Mars and the novel's overall narrator, Luru Parz. This final part of the book explains the origin of Old Earth which features in parts of Xeelee: Endurance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. The Moment of Eclipse by Brian W. 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