![]() ![]() 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. ![]() The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and 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. "A SF epic of a new world and billion year old secrets" - jacket.-Prequel to Ultima.-The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. Because sometimes exploration isn't voluntary. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years-and their planets can be habitable for humans. "Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite. ![]()
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