This doesn’t mean that the pace is slow but is the consequence of their complexity. Indeed it takes a while to understand the great story that is told in this novel, also because it embraces entire decades and contains a number of flashbacks.Īs he already did in his other novels, Stephen Baxter included in “Proxima” several ideas that are developed more or less slowly. The beginning of “Proxima” immediately throws the reader in the middle of the various subplots, a bit like Yuri is sent to prepare for the journey to the Proxima Centauri system without knowing what’s happening to him. The answers could be on the planet Mercury. Through trial and error, it was possible to understand how they work in an empirical way, but nobody knows what they really are and above all the principles that explain why they work. Stephanie “Stef” Kalinski is a scientist who is investigating the mystery of the kernels, objects discovered by humans and exploited as spaceship engines. Even worse, when someone finally tells him what’s going on, he finds out that he ended up in a group of people selected for an expedition to a planet in the Proxima Centauri system. When Yuri is awakened from hibernation, he finds himself in a place and time that’s very different from the one he grew up in. It’s the first book in the Proxima series. The novel “Proxima” by Stephen Baxter was published for the first time in 2013.
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