Proxima stephen baxter series6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() I think what bothered me most is that characters barely have time to change. It feels like it should be more, like it was meant to be more, but it just comes out as jumbled and directionless. You have alien technology found on Mars, two different expeditions to Proxima C - if you don't count the first misguided one, a habitable planet in the Proxima Centauri system, several people and their families over a span of several decades, Artificial Intelligences, a nebulous period in the history of mankind called "The Heroic Generation" which seems to have left people in fear of innovation and discovery, alien lifeforms, artificial lifeforms, parallel timelines, etc. ![]() It's not that it's a bad book, it's simply not very good. And it is barely about Proxima! The book starts with multiple viewpoints over several arcs, is split into tiny chapters and volumes, attempts to become something epic and eventually fizzles. Proxima is the first book in the Proxima duology, by Stephen Baxter. ![]()
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