Ultima
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Proxima novels volume 2.
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Penguin Publishing Group 2015
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Hailed as “one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced" (SF Site), Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas....
On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences....
As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. We all have countless pasts converging in this present—and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and now we are vulnerable to their plans for us....
It’s time to fight back and take control.
On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences....
As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. We all have countless pasts converging in this present—and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and now we are vulnerable to their plans for us....
It’s time to fight back and take control.
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Street Date:
08/04/2015
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English
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9780698142961
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Stephen Baxter. (2015). Ultima. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Stephen Baxter. 2015. Ultima. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Stephen Baxter, Ultima. Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Stephen Baxter. Ultima. Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.
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On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences....
As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. We all have countless pasts converging in this present—and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and now we are vulnerable to their plans for us....
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Picking up pretty much at the moment Proxima (2014) ended, this hugely inventive sf novel begins with two of the earlier tale's lead characters, Yuri Eden and Stef Kalinski, in an alternate timeline in which the Roman Empire became the planet Earth's major superpower. Can they use the mysterious Hatches, interdimensional gates built by humans but masterminded by an unknown and possibly alien intelligence, to get back to their own timeline? Baxter builds a completely believable alternate universehis conception of Roman space travel is just wonderful, a mixture of high-tech and ancient historyand then, later in the book, he builds still another alternate universe, entirely different but just as authentic. Themes are explored there that were merely hinted at near the conclusion of Proxima; this isn't so much a sequel as a thematic extension that (mostly) tells a new story. Baxter takes us on an interplanetary, interdimensional odyssey in which history is fluid, the past becomes many pasts, and the phrase the end of time suddenly has real meaning. Don't miss it.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. We all have countless pasts converging in this present—and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and now we are vulnerable to their plans for us....
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