![]() ![]() So what's so special about the book? For a start the story constantly surprises and moves forward without pause or break. It is quite simply breath-taking and has elevated my opinion of the author tenfold. If you imagined combining the gritty and realistic nature of Allen Steele's interstellar settlement "Coyote" series with the imagination of Phillip Mann's "The Disestablishment of Paradise" and focused into a dynamic and multi-layered story then you might be some way to imagining what Baxter has accomplished here. The book is pretty much irresistible right from the word go, drawing you into the story and making you gasp at the sheer scope. Proxima has all of his wonderful imagination and yet is also much more focused and far easier to read than any of his books I've read before (including the Long Earth novels). As a result it would be pretty much impossible to have one group of central characters throughout. To be fair though part of this is due to the subject matter some of his works draw from, often narrating a timeline that encompasses thousands of years or span vast events. ![]() There is no doubt that Stephen Baxter is a talented and imaginative author and has worked with some of the finest people to put pen to paper however I find some of his novels quite dry and lacking in empathy / effective characterisation. ![]() Proxima is more than a bit of a surprise. ![]()
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