Pilot (short Story)

"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.

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
  • Mayflower II
  • 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 Series
  • 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
Others
  • The Twelfth Album
  • Anti-Ice
  • The Time Ships
  • The Light of Other Days
  • Evolution
Unrelated collections
  • Traces
  • The Hunters of Pangaea
Non-fiction
  • Deep Future
  • Omegatropic
  • Ages in Chaos

Famous quotes containing the word pilot:

    “In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)