Resplendent
Resplendent is an English language science fiction collection published in 2006. It is the fourth and final book in Stephen Baxter's Destiny's Children series.
This book is a collection of short stories relating to the previous three books, comprising new works and previously published stories, including the novellas Reality Dust and Riding the Rock and Mayflower II, an 88-page novella taking place in the Xeelee Sequence that won the 2004 BSFA Award for the Best Short Fiction; it was published in 2004.
It contains the following stories:
“Cadre Siblings”, Interzone 153, 2000–03.
Reality Dust, 2000.
The sixth work, "Reality Dust", in the Xeelee Sequence. The plot begins not very long after the Third Expansion began (the First Expansion ended when humanity was conquered by the Squeem; the Second Expansion ended with the conquest of humanity by the Qax, and the Third Expansion, ~5400 CE, began after the events of Timelike Infinity, pursuant to Jim Bolder's destruction of the Qax home-system). The protagonist, one "Hama", an investigator for Earth's Truth Commission, is investigating the surviving Qax-collaborators (as the Qax restricted access to AS- anti-senescence technology – to collaborators, they are rather old, and are known as "Pharaohs"); he follows one renegade Pharaoh to Callisto.
