![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in the solar system, China has taken over Australia and Mars and the asteroids, but the UN-affiliated countries (read: America) have Mercury and its mysterious kernels that can power interplanetary/interstellar ships. Baxter leaves us thinking that this is the most cockamamie planetary colonization scheme ever dreamed up, until the very end-although the UN is majorly saved by the discovery of The Hatch, because otherwise I still think their colonization plan was a terrible one. The survivors are left with the knowledge that they are no longer trying to establish a self-sustaining colony but are basically just eking out an existence day to day for the rest of their lives. ![]() The story gets much better after all the potential settlers, save two, die at the settlement site of interest. I would have loved this more when I was younger. ![]() Proxima starts its life as a straightforward tale of enforced penal colonization of another planet before gradually sprawling into a parallel tale of solar system politics before eventually becoming something about exploring weird phenomena. Those also involved a future sentience/intelligence at the end of the universe reaching back in the history of the universe to alter events through weird, inexplicable phenomena. ![]() I seem to remember reading some or all of Stephen Baxter’s Manifold books when I was much younger. ![]()
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