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I'll mak this as short and sweet as I can, seeing as how there's so much that I could possibly comment on.

A young man named Pirius is the commanding officer on a ship, deep in the heart of of the galaxy. The Xeelee, a powerful alien race bent on human destruction, have attacked and destroyed Pirius's home base and killed everyone on board. Pirius's only chance now is to escape to the one place left for him to go: the past. He travels back in time a whole 2 years to warn himself of the upcomming attack. Instead of being welcomed as a savior, Pirius (Blue) gets arrested and sent to a forced labor camp for disobeying orders to hold the line in the future attack of his base.

The younger Pirius (Pirius Red) gets ejected from his academy for his future crime, but is luckily rescued from sharing older Pirius's fate. An old scientist/ecologist named Nilis takes Pirius Red back to the Sol system in an attempt to find out how to stop the ensueing destruction of the Human race at the hands of this relentless enemy.

Stephen Baxter takes us to a human hive colony on Mars, an ancient multi-dimentional labratory on one of Jupiters moons, and even a long forgotten cloning facility on Pluto where an ancient alien race has been rivived for study under the watchful eyes of some rather eccentric scientists. All in all, the book is a fantastic sci-fi acion adventure novel, with enough real quantum-physics and enough pseudo-science to keep you science buffs happy.

I highly recommend this to any sci-fi/techno-fic fan.