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Proxima baxter6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() How would it be to live on such a world? Yuri Jones, with 1,000 others, is about to find out. 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. ![]() Read more 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. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light. 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. How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin? An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth Books The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth Books. ![]()
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