6/29/2023 0 Comments Proxima by stephen baxter![]() ![]() PROXIMA tells the amazing tale of how we colonise a harsh new eden, and the secret we find there that will change our role in the Universe for ever. Yuri Jones, with 1,000 others, is about to find out. ![]() The 'substellar point', with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the 'antistellar point' on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. The Long Earth (Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter) ADVERTISEMENT. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and (in this fiction), the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. Clarke’s literary heir, and Proxima certainly reinforces this accolade in spades. An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth Books Stephen Baxter has been heralded, with some merit, as Arthur C. ![]()
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