Xeelee: Vengeance
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.
Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee.
The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them.
A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to reorder history more to the Xeelee's liking. That million-year war with humankind was one blemish. It had to be erased. And in order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history...
Read by Dudley Hinton
(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group
Customer Reviews
Boring as Hell, so Predictable
Baxter is one of my favorite all time sci-fi writers but this tomb should be a short story, not a ridiculously boring 17 hour , who knows how many page, disappointment. Worst book I've "read" in awhile. Nothing really happens, just a lot of talk, talk, talk to try to fill space. Come on Baxter!