![]() Until finally there is no-one left to fight except for the enigmatic, fabulous Xeelee, owners of the Universe. While the claw-like "Greenships" are churned out by the billion, the capital ships are the altogether stranger Spline : huge space-dwelling creatures that hire themselves out as a sort of job security. After overcoming the ruthless Qax, mankind begins another, more brutal expansion, a war for control of the Galaxy. This attracts unwanted attention, and most of the advanced tech is lost in two resulting alien occupations of Earth. In an all-too-brief golden age, mankind begins interstellar exploration in mult-generation starships miles in length, with a program to seed wormholes across the Solar System and beyond. Most of the novels are set within the next 10-20,000 years. Stephen Baxter's Xeelee novels span no less than a million years of alternate history, from the dying days of the Roman Empire to the. ![]()
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