- Reality Dust
Reality Dust is the 6th work in
Stephen Baxter 'sXeelee Sequence series. The novella was released in 2000 byPS Publishing .The plot begins not very long after the Third Expansion began (the First Expansion ended when humanity was conquered by the
Squeem ; the Second Expansion ended with the conquest of humanity by theQax (species) , and the Third Expansion, ~5400 CE, began after the events of "Timelike Infinity ", pursuant to Jim Bolder's destruction of the Qax home-system). The protagonist, one "Hama", an investigator for Earth's Truth Commission, is investigating the surviving Qax-collaborators (as the Qax restricted access to AS- anti-senescence technology - to collaborators, they are rather old, and are known as "Pharaoh s"); he follows one renegade Pharaoh to Callisto.It is collected in the anthology "
Resplendent ".References
* "Reality Dust", Stephen Baxter, 2000.
PS Publishing , ISBN 1-902880-10-2External links
* [http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ps139.htm "A review by Greg L. Johnson"]
* [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/historydust.htm Review by "Infinity Plus"]
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