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2007:"The Origin of the Xeelee Universe"
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952:"More Than Time or Distance" (1988)
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1124:"The Lowland Expedition" (2006)
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1127:"Formidable Caress" (2009)
1118:"Climbing the Blue" (2005)
1115:"PeriAndry’s Quest" (2004)
1042:"On the Orion Line" (2000)
949:"The Xeelee Flower" (1987)
579:and other consequences of
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3041:Fiction about time travel
3031:Fiction about immortality
2087:. Gollancz. 4 June 2019.
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961:"The Quagma Datum" (1989)
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1097:"Return to Titan" (2010)
1069:"Riding the Rock" (2002)
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973:"Vacuum Diagrams" (1990)
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