A.D. 3698: "The Logic Pool"

Timelike Infinity

A.D. 3717: Launch of GUTship Cauchy.

A.D. 3825: "Gossamer"

A.D. 3829: Wormhole time-travel invasion by Occupation-Era Qax.

A.D. 3948: "Cilia-of-Gold"

A.D. 3951: "Lieserl"

A.D. 3953: Launch of GUTship Great Northern.

Era: Squeem Occupation

A.D. 4874: Conquest of human planets by Squeem.

A.D. 4874: "Pilot"

A.D. 4922: "The Xeelee Flower"

A.D. 4925: Overthrow of Squeem.

A.D. 5000 +: Second expansion begins.

A.D. 5024: "More Than Time or Distance"

A.D. 5066: "The Switch"

Era: Qax Occupation

A.D. 5088: Conquest of human planets by Qax.

A.D. 5274: Return to System of GUTship Cauchy. Launch of backward time-travel invasion by Qax.

A.D. 5406: "Blue Shift"

A.D. 5407: Overthrow of Qax. Humans acquire Spline and starbreaker technology.

A.D. 5500 +: Third expansion begins.

A.D. 5611: "The Quagma Datum"

A.D. 5653: "Planck Zero"

A.D. 5664: "Eve"

Era: Assimilation

A.D. 10,000 +: Humans dominant sub-Xeelee species. Rapid expansion and absorption of species and technologies. Launch of Xeelee time-ships into deep past.

A.D. 10515: "The Godel Sunflowers"

A.D. 21124: "Vacuum Diagrams"

Era: The War to End Wars

A.D. 100,000 +: Humans assaults on Xeelee concentrations begin.

A.D. 104,858: "Stowaway"

Raft

A.D. 168,349: Launch of the Exaltation of the Integrality.

A.D. 171,257: "The Tyranny of Heaven"

A.D. 193,474: "Hero"

Flux

A.D. 1,000,000: Final siege of Solar System by Xeelee. Defeat and imprisonment of man.

Era: Flight

A.D. 4,000,000 +: Migration of Xeelee through Ring. Sol leaves Main Sequence.

C.A.D. 4,000,000: "Secret History"

Era: Photino Victory

A.D. 4,101,214: "Shell"

A.D. 4,101,266: "The Eighth Room"

A.D. 4,101,284: "The Baryonic Lords" Destruction of Ring by photino birds.

A.D. 5,000,000 +: Last humans return to Sol in GUTship Great Northern, and travel to Ring.

Ring

A.D. 10,000,000 +: Virtual extinction of baryonic life.

Singularity: Timelike Infinity

Permissions

Permissions

"The Sun-People" (under the title "The Sun-Person"), first published in Interzone, 1993.

"The Logic Pool," first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1994.

"Gossamer," first published in SF Age, 1995.

"Cilia-of-Gold," first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1994.

"Lieserl," first published in Interzone, 1993.

"Pilot," revised from "Chiron," first published as a chapbook by Novacon, 1993.

"The Xeelee Flower," first published in Interzone, 1987.

"More Than Time or Distance," first published in Opus, 1988.

"The Switch," first published in Edge, 1990.

"Blue Shift," first published in Writers Of The Future Vol V, ed. Algis Budrys, 1989.

"The Quagma Datum," first published in Interzone: the 4th Anthology, ed. John Clute, David Pringle and Simon Ounsley, 1989.

"Planck Zero," first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992.

"The Godel Sunflowers," first published in Interzone, 1992.

"Vacuum Diagrams," first published in Interzone, 1990.

"Stowaway," extracted and revised from Raft, HarperCollins, 1991.

"The Tyranny of Heaven," first published in Dream, 1990.

"Hero," first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1995.

"Shell," revised from "The Bark Spaceship," first published in Dream, 1987.

"The Eighth Room," first published in Dream, 1989.

"Secret History" and "The Baryonic Lords," revised from "The Baryonic Lords," first published in Interzone, 1991.

"Eve" (under the title "The Soliton Star"), first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1996.

About the Author

About the Author