A combination of the historical and scientific. 'I love both time travel and alternate universe stories, so the fact that Ultima was able to exceed my already-high expectations is awesome' Goodreads reviewer, Not to mention the immutability of the human spirit' Goodreads reviewer, (And so, in order to explain further, major plot revelations from Proxima have to be revealed here. 'This is one of the best books that Baxter has written to date, cleverly conflating some of his most beloved ideas, from deep time to alternate histories. After the pleasant surprise of Proxima ( review here ), in Ultima we’re launched straight into the cliff-hanger ending of the previous novel. Filled with SF inventiveness, delivered in a spontaneous, unforced pace. 'So much fun of a read this turned out to be. Read what everyone is saying about Ultima: It is set to build on the massive success of PROXIMA and define Stephen Baxter's work going forward. This is grand scale, big idea SF of the best possible sort.

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But as we learn the true nature of the universe we also discover that we have countless pasts all meeting in this present and that our future is terrifyingly finite. And we discover that there are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and they have a plan for us. Now in ULTIMA the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt. In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. The mind-blowing, time-warping science fiction epic that puts grand scientific ideas into a thrilling page-turning narrativeįresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA.

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