Pilot (short story)

"Pilot" is 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.

Set in AD 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.

Works by Stephen Baxter

Xeelee Sequence	Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams Reality Dust Riding the Rock Resplendent Starfall

Destiny's Children	Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent

Manifold Trilogy	Time Space Origin Phase Space

Mammoth trilogy	Silverhair Longtusk Icebones

A Time Odyssey	Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn

The Web	Gulliverzone Webcrash

Time's Tapestry	Emperor Conqueror Navigator Weaver

NASA Trilogy	Voyage Titan Moonseed

Flood/Ark	Flood Ark

Northland trilogy	Stone Spring Bronze Summer Iron Winter

The Long Earth	The Long Earth The Long War The Long Mars The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos

Proxima	Proxima Ultima

Others	"The Twelfth Album" Anti-Ice The Time Ships The Light of Other Days Evolution The H-Bomb Girl The Wheel of Ice The Medusa Chronicles

Unrelated collections	Traces The Hunters of Pangaea

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