![]() The harrowing and fascinating tale of how these pioneers come to terms with Per Ardua, spliced with the attempts back home to understand kernels and the rising hostility between the UN and China, takes up much of the first novel, Proxima. The Earth is more or less done for after a number of “climate Jolts” and the attempts of previous technological societies to get the planet back on course, known as the “Heroic Generation”, although there are still super-rich folks clinging on in the polar regions. While politically, the Solar System has been divvied up between China and its allies and the UN-allied countries and neither super-power has a particularly light touch with its citizenry. ![]() ![]() Humanity is pretty well divided between the haves and the have-nots, who not only don’t have much, but can also be conscripted at a moment’s notice and turfed off-world to serve unending sentences in horrifically harsh environments. Proxima starts in the far-flung future, when Earthlings have started making their way out into the immediate galactic neighbourhood, with habitats on planets like Mars and Mercury and mining encampments on asteroids and moons. Page File Fresh from his multiverse world-building with Terry Pratchett in The Long Earth series, Stephen Baxter turns to his own multiverse in the two-book set Proxima and Ultima – a very different hard sci-fi tale. ![]()
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