Coalescent

Coalescent
Hardcover edition cover
AuthorStephen Baxter
Cover artistEkhornForss
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDestiny's Children
Xeelee Sequence
GenreScience fiction novel
PublisherGollancz
Publication date
November 2003
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages480
ISBN0-575-07423-X
OCLC52695764
Followed byExultant 

Coalescent is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. It is part one of the Destiny's Children series. The story is set in two main time periods: modern Britain, when George Poole finds that he has a previously unknown sister and follows a trail to a mysterious and ancient organisation in Rome (Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins); and the time of Regina, a girl growing up during the ending of Roman rule in Britain, around AD 400.