Bibliograph

Proxima, Stephen Baxter

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Proxima, Stephen Baxter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-468)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Proxima

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

871192395

Responsibility statement

Stephen Baxter

Series statement

Proxima Series, 1

Summary

"Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite ... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. There is only hardship ... loneliness ... emptiness. But that's where Yuri comes in. Because sometimes exploration isn't voluntary. It must be coerced ..."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

"A SF epic of a new world and billion year old secrets" -- jacket.-Prequel to Ultima.-The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. 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. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light. The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun -- and the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. 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. How would it be to live on such a world? Needle ships fall from Proxima IV's sky. Yuri Jones, with 1000 others, is about to find out. 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

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