There are 8 books in the Xeelee series. The newest book is Redemption which came out in 2019.

Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series!

A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know.…

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Timelike Infinity

Book cover of Timelike Infinity

Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting... The second novel in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence.

First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal…

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Flux

Book cover of Flux

Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe. Stephen Baxter's third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic and endearing story of an abandoned people.

Abandoned to their…

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Ring

Book cover of Ring
Wenn die Sonne stirbt …

Der Verdacht erhärtet sich, dass die Sonne eine weit kürzere Lebenserwartung hat als bisher angenommen. Um sich Gewissheit zu verschaffen, werden zwei Großprojekte in Angriff genommen: Die Great Northern, ein Forschungsraumschiff, soll durch ein Wurmloch fünf Milliarden Jahre in die Zukunft reisen. „Lieserl“ hingegen ist…

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Vacuum Diagrams

Book cover of Vacuum Diagrams

Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this collection of stories, available in ebook for the first time!

Baxter's future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels - Raft, Timelike Infinity,…

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Vengeance

Book cover of Vengeance

Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.

Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He…

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Redemption

Book cover of Redemption

Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape . . .
This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital…