Resplendent

Stephen Baxter

Chapters (68)

Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Dedication

PART ONE - RESURGENCE

CADRE SIBLINGS - AD 5301

CONURBATION 2473 - AD 5407

REALITY DUST - AD 5408

ALL IN A BLAZE - AD 5478

PART TWO - THE WAR WITH THE GHOSTS

SILVER GHOST - AD 5499

THE COLD SINK - AD 5802

ON THE ORION LINE - AD 6454

GHOST WARS - AD 7004

THE GHOST PIT - AD 7524

PART THREE - ASSIMILATION

LAKES OF LIGHT - AD 10,102

BREEDING GROUND - AD 10,537

THE DREAMING MOULD - AD 12,478

THE GREAT GAME - AD 12,659

PART FOUR - RESPLENDENT

THE CHOP LINE - AD 20,424

IN THE UN-BLACK - AD 22,254

RIDING THE ROCK - AD 23,479

PART FIVE - THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE

MAYFLOWER II - AD 5420-24,974

BETWEEN WORLDS - AD 27,152

PART SIX - THE FALL OF MANKIND

THE SIEGE OF EARTH - c. AD 1,000,000

TIMELINE

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Icebones
Behemoth
Reality Dust
Evolution

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Gulliverzone
Webcrash

Destiny’s Children:
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Exultant
Transcendent
Resplendent

A Time Odyssey (with Arthur C. Clarke)
Time’s Eye
Sunstorm

Time’s Tapestry
Emperor
Conqueror

In Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Revolutions in the Earth

Title Page

Resplendent

STEPHEN BAXTER

Orion

Copyright Page

A Gollancz ebook

The right of Stephen Baxter to be identified as the author
of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in Great Britain in 2006
by Gollancz
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Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin’s Lane, London WC2H 9EA

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Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS

One

‘Cadre Siblings’, first published in Interzone 153, 2000.

‘Conurbation 2473’, first published in Live without a Net, ed. Lou Anders, Tor Books, August 2003.

‘Reality Dust’, first published by PS Publishing, 2000.

‘All in a Blaze’, first published in Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, ed. Mike Resnick and Janis Ian, Daw Books, 2003.

Two

‘Silver Ghost’, first published in Asimov’s, September 2000.

‘The Cold Sink’, first published in Asimov’s, August 2001.

‘On the Orion Line’, first published in Asimov’s, October 2000.

‘Ghost Wars’, first published in Asimov’s, January 2006.

‘The Ghost Pit’, first published in Asimov’s, July 2001.

Three

‘Lakes of Light’, first published in Constellations, ed. Peter Crowther, Tekno Books, 2005.

‘Breeding Ground’, first published in Asimov’s, February 2003.

‘The Dreaming Mould’, first published in Interzone 179, 2002.

‘The Great Game’, first published in Asimov’s, March 2003.

Four

‘The Chop Line’, first published in Asimov’s, December 2003.

‘In the Un-Black’, first published in Redshift, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin Putnam, 2001.

‘Riding the Rock’, first published by PS Publishing, November 2002.

Five

‘Mayflower II’, first published by PS Publishing, August 2004.

‘Between Worlds’, first published in Between Worlds, ed. Robert Silverberg, SF Book Club, September 2004.

Six

‘The Siege of Earth’, previously unpublished.

All material revised for this volume.

Dedication

For my grandfathers,
Private Frederick William Richmond,
20th Battalion the King’s Regiment (the Liverpool Pals),
1914-1917,
and Company Sergeant-Major William Henry Baxter,
King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry, 1903-1919.