How would you survive on a planet that doesnt spin?An aweinspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchetts coauthor on the Long Earth BooksThe very far future The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxyspanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a longgone 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. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. 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. How would it be to live on such a world?Yuri Jones, with 1,000 others, is about to find out ...PROXIMA tells the amazing tale of how we colonise a harsh new eden, and the secret we find there that will change our role in the Universe for ever.Readers love ProximaThe plot was very interesting and I really liked how the narrative alternated from the past to the future to give a better understanding of the setting . . . a thought...

Binding: Paperback;464 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FL; Weight: 434 g; Dimensions: 198 x 136 x 30

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