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Proxima · Book 2

Ultima

by Stephen Baxter

Published
1 January 2014
Pages
528
ISBN-13
9780575116887
Type
novel

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About this book

Ultima followed a year later in 2014, its 528 pages -- the longer of the two -- following the Hatch network's discovery to a reality-bending extreme that opens parallel alternate-history versions of human civilization, including one where Rome never fell.

Its place in Proxima

Ultima is book 2 in the Proxima series. It follows Proxima. 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…

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