Product DescriptionStar Humans are microscopic, but their hopes and fears, and loves, are not. And the future of humans everywhere, on Earth and among the stars, depends on their courage in the face of attack by the mighty Xeelee, owners of the Universe.
A novel of the Xeelee Sequence from the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Clarke and Wells, heralding a new Golden Age in science fiction.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - enjoyable hard scifi
hard scifi with a great story as a framework. another good novel of the xeelee sequence.
Rating: - white hot
Flux was my first foray into hard sci-fi, and it was not what I expected. I had tried to read a few others in the genre, but was turned off by the textbook-like narratives and lifeless characters, but Baxter does a great job of combining the science behind the lives he has created within a solar body with the humanity of a race of intelligent beings clinging to the layers of their world. I can honestly say that I was captivated by this story, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Rating: - Strengths far outweigh weaknesses- terrific science
The review by Christopher is articulate and accurate regarding the imperfect story in Flux. However the environment and senario are so wonderfully drawn and described that weaknesses in the story are a minor distraction in the work of the facinating author.
Rating: - Baxter has vision, but it's blurred
This is the second Baxter book I've read (after VACUUM DIAGRAMS), and like the first it's a mix of brilliance and disappointment.
Baxter unquestionably has the wildest hard-physics imagination in the business. The world depicted in FLUX is a staggering conceptual achievement, taking the amazing concept of neutron-star life first suggested by Frank Drake and developed by Robert L. Forward in DRAGON'S EGG & STARQUAKE and going one step further, creating an ecosystem within the neutron ... Read More
Rating: - Never Loses Sight of the Human Element
Stephen Baxter is practically the hardest of Hard SF writers around. `Flux' is another volume in his sprawling Xeelee Sequence of novels and short stories. The Xeelee Sequence doesn't have to be read in any particular order as the stories told span a timeline of tens of billions of years. Readers can dip in and out of the novels and collected short stories at any point.
`Flux' tells the story of Dura, one of a microscopic species of human who live in the mantle of a star. Hers is a feudal ... Read More
- enjoyable hard scifi
- Baxter has vision, but it's blurred
