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Alia is a girl in a small family on a ice-structure spaceship, who enjoys "skimming" or teleporting using nano-machines in her blood and the rules of quantum mechanics.
Alia is a girl in a small family on a ice-structure spaceship, who enjoys "skimming" or teleporting using nano-machines in her blood and the rules of quantum mechanics.

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* [[Exultant (Stephen Baxter)|Exultant]]
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Revision as of 20:19, 4 December 2005

Transcendent (ISBN 0345457919) is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. It is part three of the Destiny's Children series.

The story alternates between Michael Poole, in the year 2047, and Alia, approximately half a million years after Michael Poole died. The chapters alternate with the characters, first Michael, then Alia.

Michael Poole is an engineer whose wife died years ago and is working on projects that involve leaving Earth, which has suffered greatly from Global Warming and pollution.

Alia is a girl in a small family on a ice-structure spaceship, who enjoys "skimming" or teleporting using nano-machines in her blood and the rules of quantum mechanics.


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