Starfall

About “Starfall”

Starfall is a novella by Stephen Baxter, part of the Xeelee Sequence, a series of hard science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories spanning billions of years of fictional history. The series explores humanity's future expansion into the universe, its intergalactic war with the Xeelee, a supremely advanced Kardashev Type V alien civilization, and the Xeelee's own conflict with dark matter entities known as Photino Birds. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)