Vacuum Diagrams, a collection that sets out the overall story of the universe. Then Timelike Infinity and Ring which tell the story of Michael Poole, then Raft and Flux which are really incidents against the wider background, and finally Destiny's Children." Reception Science fiction author Paul J. McAuley has praised Baxter and the series, saying: See also Stephen Baxter (author) Hard science fiction Space opera Great Attractor Kardashev scale Notes Baxter cites the pronunciation "ch-ee-lee" in Xeelee: Vengeance. It's unclear why, given the history of the author himself pronouncing it as "zee-lee", but one possible reason is that it reflects how the name came to be pronounced in-universe due to language change, especially considering Baxter's prior references to glottochronology in the series. Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction, 2004 References External links Stephen Baxter's official website. The complete (as of September 2015) timeline for the Xeelee Sequence of novels and stories, hosted on Baxter's official website. Book series introduced in 1991 Fictional universes Novels about extraterrestrial life Stephen Baxter series Space opera Transhumanism in fiction Artificial intelligence in fiction Artificial wormholes in fiction Fiction about consciousness transfer Fiction about immortality Fiction about the Solar System Fiction about time travel Fiction set in the 7th millennium or beyond Quantum fiction novels Dystopian novels Cosmic horror