A review by corymojojojo
Exultant by Stephen Baxter

4.0

While I deeply love Baxter’s early Xeelee novels, it it interesting to see how much he’s improved as a writer in the Destiny’s Children series so far. I do think Exultant is a great book for hard sci-fi fans, and while I think it’s a better book than his early stuff, I didn’t quite enjoy it as much. Mostly I think this comes down to the fact that Exultant is very much military sci-fi, the first mil sci-fi book in the series, and frankly I’m just not all that interested in military plots. That being said, there’s still a lot to like here. I loved that Baxter dove into the origins and background of the Xeelee, something that he typically shrouds in total mystery, and even though I usually love that the Xeelee are often more illusive, Baxter doesn’t hold back when it comes to their crazy, astrophysic-heavy lore.