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> I would love to read a sci-fi story about organisms that evolved in the early plasma universe and how they used technology to create arks to carry them throug
by tablespoon 6y ago
> I would love to read a sci-fi story about organisms that evolved in the early plasma universe and how they used technology to create arks to carry them through the rapidly cooling universe. And then one day an ark filled with primordial plasma passes by Earth and says hi.
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee series actually touches on quite a bit of that, but his writing is such that I'd honestly prefer to read it in outline form with the conceptual bits pasted in.
IIRC, the short story "The Quagma Datum" from Vacuum Diagrams deals with that most directly, and is similar the story your asking for, complete with an ark. Also the titular Xeelee are also survivors from the very early universe.
- aerique 6y agoI can't get through Baxter's writing either. Well, I did manage one book and his ideas are grand, such that one keeps thinking about it for a while after reading his stuff. But I don't know what it is about his writing. It just isn't very gripping. This opposed to f.e. Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward. Similar hard scifi, but much more fun to read.
- tablespoon 6y ago> I can't get through Baxter's writing either. Well, I did manage one book and his ideas are grand, such that one keeps thinking about it for a while after reading his stuff. He also reuses his "grand" ideas. For instance, I skimmed Xeelee Redemption because it's apparently the first book where he actually depicted a Xeelee, and a lot of the chapters were rehashes of ideas he'd previously explored (e.g. humans evolving into hive organisms, species surviving environmental destruction by becoming symbiotic composite organisms).