Resplendent

This collection of short stories is an unnecessary appendix to an unneeded series. The Xeelee universe has been the stage for some truly great and re-readable novels, and with Coalescent Baxter proved himself still capable of producing interesting new ideas and writing a good story to explore them - but tying Coalescent into the Xeelee arc was unnecessary and contrived. The rest of the Destiny's Children 'series' is plodding and poorly written (rather like Clarke in his later years), and this book in particular feels like the last dust of a mined-out seam.

My favourite book! A collection of short fiction that explores the width and depth of the author's Xeelee Sequence. As individual stories (considered independently of the Xeelee context), some are good, some excellent, and some merely okay. What makes me re-read this book is the breathtaking scale of Baxter's vision.

I have been reading science fiction for several decades now. Of the hundreds of books and magazines I must have read, none conveys as much sense of wonder as Resplendent.

For maximum effect, I recommend reading some of the novels from the Xeelee Sequence and/or Destiny's Children series first.

I enjoyed this book. A collection of short stories that spans much of the universe Baxter has developed (in time and in location). I like this way of interacting with a known universe, and could have read dozens more of these stories.

I can't say that the "ending" was satisfactory, though. An unfortunate side effect of this style, perhaps. Even so, this book almost stands alone and was a fun read.

It took me awhile to connect with this book. But after it did, I really found it excellent. It is a series of short stories crossing a truly epic tale on a grade scale of space and time.

Good collection of short stories that fill in some gaps in the Xeelee sequence.

Great collection of short stories from Baxters epic universe. Very enjoyable.

3.5