How would it be to live on such a world? Needle ships fall from Proxima IV’s sky. The ‘substellar point’, with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the ‘antistellar point’ on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. 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 – and (in this fiction), the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. 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. The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. You can read this before Proxima PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Proxima written by Stephen Baxter which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Proxima by Stephen Baxter
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