Timelike Infinity

Xeelee Sequence, Book 2

By: Stephen Baxter

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting... The second novel in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence.

First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Earth became a vast factory for alien foodstuffs.

Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail.

Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.

©2013 Stephen Baxter (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited

Quick and exciting

More or less a short story, was it a novella either way I enjoyed it. It was quite fast paced and kept guessing.

Good story, horrible performance

The narrator needs to learn the meaning of "less is more". completely ruins an otherwise good book. The horrible overacting of the narrator. Abysmal performance. Makes you cringe everytime he "imitates" a female for instance. One of the voices he makes made me laugh for all the wrong reasons. Sounds like the Simpsons or Futurama instead of a sci fi epic. Poor Baxter getting his story completely ruined by this. Half of the people sounds like 90 year old dementia-ridden elderly. Like the narrator of the Game of Thrones, this makes me not wanna listen to anymore books in this series