Proxima · Book 1
Proxima
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 484
- ISBN-13
- 9780575116856
- Type
- novel
About this book
Stephen Baxter opened his hard-SF Proxima duology in 2013 with Proxima, a 484-page novel following reluctant colonist Yuri Eden and soldier Stef Kalinski on the hostile, tidally-locked world Per Ardua, where mysterious alien 'Hatch' structures set a deeper mystery in motion.
Its place in Proxima
Proxima is book 1 in the Proxima series. It is followed by Ultima. See the full Proxima reading order.
A two-book hard-SF story of interstellar colonization gone strange, built around a habitable world orbiting Proxima Centauri and the mysterious alien-built "Hatch" structures found scattered across it. Proxima (2013) follows Yuri Eden, a reluctant colonist shipped off to found a settlement on the tidally-locked, hostile planet Per Ardua, alongside soldier Stef Kalinski, whose scientific curiosity about the enigmatic Hatches on the planet's surface sets the deeper mystery of the series in motion -- artifacts that…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575116856
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575116863