Galaxias

Not that great, the book is all tell and little show. Characters sit around in endless meetings while the story passes them by. Matters aren't helped by an undeserved dollop of smug post-Brexit British exceptionalism.......more

Galaxias is a novel with a lot of energy that keeps one turning pages until the end - there is a cool epilogue but I really liked the actual end of the novel as it encapsulates the mixture of hope and tragedy of the main characters and it really humanizes powerfully an otherwise fairly hard-sf tale.......more

Galaxias starts out quite strong, with a gripping event and the subsequent rush as the characters try to understand what the hell happened. It's all downhill from there though... The middle part is essentially 3-400 pages of telling instead of showing, pure speculation, and assumptions based on assu......more

I’m a big fan of Stephen Baxter’s stories. They do come in different types, though. It’s difficult to pin down exactly what I like. Is it that sometimes they’re far future epics covering thousands of years (see the Xeelee series). Or is it that he brings epic disasters down to the human scale – Flood......more

In short....boring and silly. Starts off OK, the sun disappears! But...(view spoiler)[then it disintegrates into a powerful being (just one apparently) doesn't like us and wants the galaxy to itself, so the chimps throw shit, sorry, the humans send out a spaceship which they build in no time and send off the widower (hide spoiler)]......more