![]() ![]() What was most disappointing about Stephen Baxter’s story?īaxter often likes to mess about with parallel worldlines, and Ultima is no exception but here he seems to have gone for the utter laziest of possible worlds. But I wanted a moderately listenable doorstop to entertain me on long bus rides, and with Baxter that's exactly what you get (and no more). Ultima breaks none of these Baxterisms, and indeed seems to borrow many of them directly from his earlier books. ![]() A Machiavellian AI has its own plans for humanity. The West will be thrown into rivalry with China the Chinese will always be repressed statists with a penchant for heavy engineering. A new technological development will enable new expansion, usually spearheaded by a billionaire philanthropist. When you buy a Stephen Baxter book you know certain things about the plot it will span generations and end in an astronomical catastrophe. Would you try another book from Stephen Baxter and/or Kyle McCarley? ![]()
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