Buy this book on-line BAXTER**, STEPHEN: : VACUUM DIAGRAMS: Stories of the Xeelee SequenceLONDON.VOYAGE/HarperCollinsPublishers,1997. ISBN 9780002254250.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, immaculate glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Chris Moore,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,critics' reviews to rear panel of same; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually pristine.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards (bds) with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers (eps).UK, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+3- 460pp [paginated] includes a foreword, acknowledgements,a contents list/table,a prologue,22 stories in 7 sections,and an epilogue (short bridging story 'Eve'); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,individual section separator pages and section intro(?)/precis and at the rear,an appended 4pp Xeelee Sequence Timeline followed by 4pp blanks.
Novel based on the short stories which - together with his novels 'Raft' (1991), Timelike Infinity' (1992),'Flux' (1993), and 'Ring' (1994) - comprise his 'Xeelee Sequence' Future History.
The stories written between 1987 and 1995,have been revised for this edition; a new timeline is appended; references to the novels are included as footnotes,and a new short story ('Eve') has been included as bridging material.
Of the 22 stories included here,four were first published in IsaAc Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine,one in SF Age,one in a Writers of The Future anthology,and eight in Interzone.Two,('Lieserl' and 'Cilia-of-Gold') have been included in annual Legend Year's Best SF collections,edited by Gardner Dozois.The other stories mostly appeared in small-press magazines and, while fans are aware of the pieces,they have been largely unavailable before this collection.
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