Thursday 25 August 2016

Proxima - Stephen Baxter

The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and 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. How would it be to live on such a world? 

My thoughts:
The beginning was a bit slow, but I kept thinking it's Baxter and it got better. I think the problem was that there was this other POV that showed up, not often, not that long, but I just did not care. I was all about the settlers. Oh those were fascinating.

It's a race between China and the rest, and to beat China settlers are sent to Proxima. It takes 4 years for a message to get from there home, and the settlers are really left to fend for themselves. On a strange new world, and well there are So many more things I want to say, but honestly it's just spoilers spoilers.

Proxima is an interesting planet, and there are secrets, and the end, omg, that was freaky! I really need to read part two to see how it all plays out. There are some good secrets in here for sure.

The book is about Yuri who gets sent to Proxima (and stuff goes down and I so want to talk about but I can not.) I loved learning more about the planet and the struggle for the settlers.

The POv of whatever was boring, and I am glad when it showed up it was a few chapters and I skimmed it. I did not really see the point of it. Our solar system is boring.

Conclusion:
In the end, Baxter is a great sci-fi writers and he always comes up with such cool concepts. I need book 2 then.

Cover
ok

Hardcover, 456 pages
Published September 19th 2013 by Gollancz
Proxima #1
Sci.fi
Library

36 comments:

  1. Well, at least that cover is better than the one from yesterday.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I havent read these books but I'm really into scifi so I will have to check it out! :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sorry it started off convoluted for you. But hey! It worked out in the end. I hope the next one will be even better!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Now you have me curious what the end was, I wanna know!! :D

    ReplyDelete
  5. You have me very intrigued. I'm going to have to check this one out. I hope you enjoy book two.

    Melanie @ Hot Listens & Rabid Reads

    ReplyDelete
  6. Probably not my type of book but thanks for the review.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Sounds interesting, but not thrilled about the unnecessary point of view.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Well it was just a few pages here and there

      Delete
  8. I had a comment here...I SWEAR!

    ReplyDelete
  9. I still have yet to read a book by Stephen Baxter, though I have a lot of his books on my shelf.

    ~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum

    ReplyDelete
  10. Our solar system is boring? LMAO!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Hmm, this sounds good despite the other pov. I do like the idea of settlers on another planet.

    ReplyDelete
  12. oh I would pick this one up...I love me some sci fi.

    ReplyDelete
  13. It hooked you! Sometimes we have to just skip bits that don't work for us. I do that too.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Looks cool! Need to read more sci-fi!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Despite the POV you didn't care for, this sounds like a great sci-fi read!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Luckily it was short, and I was all, I need to know about Proxima!

      Delete
  16. I've always wanted to visit Proxima Centauri :).

    ReplyDelete
  17. Slow isn't good and I'm upset that our solar system is boring. :D

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It was mostly cos they had not gotten to the planet yet

      Delete
  18. This sounds good and I like the cover. :-)

    ReplyDelete
  19. well you know me and sci-fi but it's great to see you had a nice time

    ReplyDelete

Contributors

Copyright © 2008-2020 Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell All Rights Reserved. Proudly powered by Blogger

  © Blogger template Starry by Ourblogtemplates.com 2008 Modified by Lea

Back to TOP