This September Gollancz in the UK will publish a new Stephen Baxter collection, Resplendent. The book is listed as being the final volume of Baxter’s Destiny’s Children sequence, much as the collection Phase Space was a pendant collection to the Manifold sequence. I pretty much overlooked a lot of early Baxter, and only started reading him actively once Phase Space was published. The stories in Resplendent were published between 1999 and 2006, and I’ve read most of them. I don’t know how they’ll read as book, but there are some very good SF stories here. One of the collections of the year. Be sure to check it out.
The contents of Resplendent are:
- Cadre Siblings
- Reality Dust
- Silver Ghost
- On the Orion Line
- In the Un-Black
- The Ghost Pit
- The Cold Sink
- Breeding Ground
- The Great Game
- The Chop Line
- The Dreaming Mould
- Conurbation 2473
- All in a Blaze
- Riding the Rock
- Lakes of Light
- Between Worlds
- Mayflower II
- Ghost Wars
Oh, and for what it’s worth, I’d love to see a ‘Best of Stephen Baxter’ collection. Given that most of his collections are in print, I doubt it could ever happen, but it’d be a good book.
That’s it. I’m officially impatient.
Haven’t you read most of the stories, though?
Jonathan,
Destiny’s Children is a “subset” of Stephen Baxter’s “Xeelee” universe, and Baxter has one more Xeelee collection forthcoming: TALES OF OLD EARTH, which will gather all the recent stories that he has been publishing lately in Analog magazine:
1. PeriAndry’s Quest
2. Climbing the Blue
3. The Time Pit
4. The Lowland Expedition.
Obviously, it will be a few years, I think, before he is finished with this additional subset of “Xeelee,” but at least he’s still writing short fiction…
Tom Dean, a.k.a. “William Atheling III”
I’ll be curious to see the final book. I like his short fiction a lot, more than I like his novels to be honest.
Sure I’ve read most of them. But there’s a half-dozen or so that I haven’t …
I’ve also only read one of the ‘Old Earth’ stories–‘PeriAndry’s Quest’–but I like the setting a lot.