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The Thousand Earths
- Narrated by: Caitlin Shannon, David Monteith
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning.
In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close.
Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about the challenges which are coming.
A mission which will take him five million years to complete.
Not only is Hackett exploring unknown space, but he will return to a vastly different time.
Mela's world is coming to an end. Erosion is eating away at the edges of every landmass - first at a rate of ten metres a year, but fast accelerating, displacing people and animals as the rising Tide destroys everything in its path. Putting more and more pressure on the people - and resources - which remain.
She and her people have always known that this long-predicted end to their home, one of the Thousand Earths, is coming - but that makes their fight to survive, to protect each other, no less desperate . . . and no less doomed.
A beautiful story which interweaves the tale of these two characters, separated by both space and time, in a hopeful exploration of humanities' future, this is Stephen Baxter at his best.
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- Alexander Fernandes
- 2023-01-11
Baxters big thinking still satisfies
its Baxter's huge timescales and scope that keeps me coming back. you don't see much Scifi that acknowledges cosmology the way he does.
He's a "progressive" though and infatuated with sinking stories and refugees from sinking. Depressing.
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Also why would such a great vision of Humanity be happy with a single earth in all the cosmos? We seem to limit ourselves to this voluntarily. "oops sorry for existing". Even mitochondria got a better deal with life. Couldn't we negotiate better? Maybe the living stars would benefit from a substrate existence after stars are over? Even a nasty war would improve our negotiations a little.
And why the tide at all? Seems dramatic when it can all go pop in an instant.
Maybe Baxter will do all this in a sequel and find all new ways to be Depressing.
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