Xeelee: Endurance (51 page)

ALSO BY STEPHEN BAXTER FROM GOLLANCZ:

NON-FICTION

Deep Future

The Science of Avatar

FICTION

Mammoth

Longtusk

Icebones

Behemoth

Reality Dust

Evolution

Flood

Ark

Proxima

Ultima

Xeelee: An Omnibus

NORTHLAND

Stone Spring

Bronze Summer

Iron Winter

THE WEB

Gulliverzone

Webcrash

DESTINY’S CHILDREN

Coalescent

Exultant

Transcendent

Resplendent

A TIME ODYSSEY
(with Arthur C. Clarke)

Time’s Eye

Sunstorm

Firstborn

TIME’S TAPESTRY

Emperor

Conqueror

Navigator

Weaver

Previous publications:

‘PeriAndry’s Quest’ first published in
Analog
, June 2004. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2004.

‘Climbing the Blue’ first published in
Analog
, July/August 2005. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2005.

‘The Time Pit’ first published in
Analog
, October 2005. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2005.

‘The Lowland Expedition’ first published in
Analog
, April 2006. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2006.

‘Remembrance’ first published in
The New Space Opera
, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Voyager, 2007. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2007.

‘The Seer and the Silverman’ first published in
Galactic Empires
, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan,
SFBC
, 2008. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2008.

‘Starfall’ first published by PS Publishing, April 2009. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2009.

‘Formidable Caress’ first published in
Analog
, November 2009. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2009.

‘Return to Titan’ first published in
Godlike Machines
ed. Jonathan Strahan,
SFBC
, 2010. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2010.

‘Gravity Dreams’, first published by PS Publishing, April 2011. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2011.

‘Endurance’, original to this edition. Copyright Stephen Baxter 2015.

This collection copyright Stephen Baxter 2015.

All material newly edited for this anthology.

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