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Please excuse my crappy writing abilities. I definatly dont do it justice. It really is a great work of fiction.
They really aren't 'birds'. The reason they were called 'Photino Birds' by humans was that when Liserl (an AI or sorts) observed them, she couldnt adequetly describe it, and they seemed to 'flock' and move around like birds so she made the closest analogy that she/it could.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: I believe that all of Baxter's books fit in the sequence, if only tangentially, except for his sequel to The Time Machine. (Cross thread points!) Or maybe even that does.
Ug. I hate it when a writer decides to write a sequel to a classic.
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I bought Time Ships last year on the recommendation of a guy from my university's sci-fi club. Unfortunately I've got about a dozen Star Trek novels in line to be read so I haven't gotten to it yet. It sounds like Baxter injected a lot of quantum mechanics stuff into the story, which is partially what attracted me to it in the first place.
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It's sad, but when I want an "easy read" I turn to Trek. When I want something worth thinking about I go for hard sci-fi (Simmons, Bear, etc.).
I'm going to start Dan Simmons' Illium next week....anyone read that yet?
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OK, so I read Exultant that gave a lot of the info about the Xeelee vs. Photino Bird conflict. At the end the Xeelee effectively stop building their escape route and all-out XvPB war seems to be brewing. With humans caught in the middle. If I have this right, at some point during the war that follows humanity get trapped in a box or something (has that been coevered in one of the previous books?) and eventually the Xeelee do a runner to another universe, and some humans use the same method to go to other universes as well, and it's those groups whose fates and descendants are covered in the first books - Raft, Flux, Ring was it?
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