Pilot (short story)

"Pilot" is a science fiction short story by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter, part of his 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.

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Works by Stephen Baxter
Xeelee Sequence	Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams Reality Dust Riding the Rock Mayflower II Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent Starfall Gravity Dreams Xeelee: Endurance
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 The Massacre of Mankind
Unrelated collections	Traces The Hunters of Pangaea