Proxima

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Stephen Baxter: Proxima (2013, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

455 pages

English language

Published Oct. 4, 2013 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-575-11683-2
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OCLC Number:
853505897

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Space colonies
  • Exploration
  • Fiction

Places

  • Outer space