Proxima: Proxima (Audiobook)

from ConalO

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 thi...

from Cataloger623

Proxima is a story about interstellar colonization by an Earth that has been torn apart by climate change, and political turmoil. Initially the book gave me that funny feeling like I had stepped into part2 of a trilogy. Baxter mentions important events in the story casually like the reader should...

from AlanPoulter

This author used to write deep universe-spanning trilogies like others wrote short stories. He has been writing for a good while and has accumulated an impressively strong collection of classic novels and short stories. His Zeelee sequence is a classic. Recently though, since 'Flood' and 'Ark', h...

from DeusXMachina

For me, Baxter is an equivalent for efficient page turning - not too hard on the science front, many plots going on at once, many plot turns that come more or less unexpected, believable characters (though, in this case, the colonised planet was one of the most remarkable "characters" in itself)....

from santhony

I have read an enormous amount of science fiction over the years. It has become increasingly rare to stumble upon originality in the genre, because let's face it, there are only so many alien constructs that can be convincingly presented. Only so many "hard" science fiction methods of faster than...