Vacuum Diagrams

This is a short story compilation that scatters through his Xeelee Sequence novels and stories. His stuff is always a good read although this one loses its grip at times with characters and story lines not being as sharp as expected. However, covering about five billions years of cosmic history is no mean feat.

A classic.

Reading a short stories book can be a roller coaster. The very nature of this kind of books is that more than 50% of the stories must be excellent to keep you reading, otherwise if 2 continuous stories are boring, then is easy to give up on the book.

The thing is, here we have a few weak stories for sure but they are still good, and the good ones, are just top quality SF and I’ll eventually read them again. There was not a single one that did not put my brain to work , I liked that.

This one and Timelike Infinity are my favorites from Baxter.