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Proxima

Yazan: Stephen Baxter
Seslendiren: Kyle McCarley
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The 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 Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. 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. 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.

Read by Kyle McCarley

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Would you try another book written by Stephen Baxter or narrated by Kyle McCarley?

Probably not. There were times when characters launched off into "sermons" on the evils of nuclear war, the comparative evolutionary processes of contrived worlds or some other worthy opinion, all a bit tedious.
The naration was unusual.

Did Kyle McCarley do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

The best way to enjoy the naration was to imagine that in the 23rd century everyone may speak that way. Unfortunately they don't yet. There was an odd array of acsents, but they were different.

Was Proxima worth the listening time?

Just about. By using General Mcgregor's maxim "God bless inverse square spreadings!" (does anyone really say that stuff?), by spreading out the story over a large area of space-time I got to the end.

Any additional comments?

Others raive about this story, which clearly suggests I missed the point. So you may happily disregard my review. For me, I am very happy to leave the charaters hanging on the cliff at the end of this book for eternity.

"God bless inverse square spreadings!"

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Kyle McCarley does a stellar job, in particular, Beth's mishmash of Australian and Manchurian accent I thought was excellent.
The real science used added credibility, with time dilation for people travelling at relativistic speeds, and and the silent explosions (due to the vacuum of space). When most film & t.v. stories just gloss over the 'science'

Loved it

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I found Kyle McCarley's pronunciation of some words mind boggling - or as he would probably say "Mond buuuggling". Fortunately since it was set over a century into the future I was able to convince myself it was a dialect of the time.

Spoiled by the narrator

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A great tale of inter and intra stellar travel, politics, technology ultimately let down by the final 'teaser' ending

Stop listening at chapter 89 and you'll love it.

Wonderful story until the final 2 minutes

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This was a very satisfying solar system spanning epic journey. Great story well performed. I would recommend this audio book

Really satisfying listen

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