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Vacuum Diagrams

Vacuum Diagrams

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..." This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself. Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time. Stephen Baxter is the most acclaimed and accomplished of a brilliant new generation of authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking itto a new golden age.


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“There was no cognition he realized. There was only perception.”

Secret History (p. 350)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

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“I’ve made myself a rich man. You shouldn’t assume that makes me a fool.”

The Quagma Datum (p. 201)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

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“Time stretches like a lazy leopard when it wants to.”

More Than Time or Distance (p. 161)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

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