by Stephen Baxter
“It was all marvellous – but somehow fantastically dull at the same time.” Epic, yes, but strangely low-key particularly for a novel in which the dastardly Chinese hurl an asteroid at the Earth. Humanity, bless it, colonises the third planet of the star Proxima in a distinctly ignoble way and those ...
Not worth it. Proxima is set in the 22nd century, when population pressures and an overheating, dying Earth have sent vast waves of humanity out to live in domes on the Moon, Mercury, Mars and the larger asteroids. Yuri Eden, a man from Mars, is swept together with a bunch of other ne'er-do-wells ...
You know, I just can't seem to find hard scifi that really speaks to me.I had high hopes for Proxima: interesting premise and an ex-engineer author with a history of collaborating with Terry Pratchett? Count me in.But the book just wasn't for me. I honestly didn't plan on reviewing it because I just...
This novel has both an interesting premise as well as some decent world building in it but as an overall novel this one just did not work that well for me. It had at least three different story lines going on that did not seem to have any connection and while they converged some by the end of this s...
Origninally reviewed on almightylewry.wordpress.comThis is Stephen Baxter at his best. this is a novel about colonisation of our closest star. the Sci-Fi in this book as is is with the majority of Stephens titles is based loosely on Science and theoretical physics of today and is always a plausibl...
Proxima bills itself as a planetary romance with exploration and colonization of an alien world. The book certainly has plenty of that, but it also has two other subplots: a political one involving a Cold War-style detente between the U.N. and China, and a cosmic mystery with consequences to the un...
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