Pilot (short story)

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"Pilot" is the title of a short story in science fiction author Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence. Sixth in the anthology Vacuum Diagrams, it is a revision of a story first published as a chapbook by Novacon in 1993.

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Set in A.D. 4874, "Pilot" relates the forced settlement of space pilots on the centaur-type planetoid Chiron and their use of their grounded ships' drives to escape the gravitational pull of the Solar system, as well as an alien missile that is sent to destroy their new home.


Books by Stephen Baxter (edit)
Xeelee Sequence: Raft - Timelike Infinity - Flux - Ring - Vacuum Diagrams - Reality Dust - Riding the Rock
Destiny's Children Series: Coalescent - Exultant - Transcendent - Resplendent
Manifold Trilogy: Time - Space - Origin - Phase Space
The Mammoth Trilogy: Silverhair - Longtusk - Icebones
A Time Odyssey Series: Time's Eye - Sunstorm - Firstborn
The Web Series: Gulliverzone - Webcrash
Time's Tapestry Series: Emperor - Conqueror
Others: Anti-Ice - The Time Ships - Voyage - Titan - Moonseed - The Light of Other Days - Traces - Evolution
Non-fiction: Deep Future - Omegatropic - Ages in Chaos
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