Galaxias

By Stephen Baxter,

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Book description

What would happen to the world if the sun went out?

New epic sci-fi from Stephen Baxter, the award-winning author whose credits include co-authorship of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett.

By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and…

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1 author picked Galaxias as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The book is somewhat flawed and many of the critics have focused on them, BUT I found the basic premise that some alien "has turned off the sun" so out of the world (literally!) that I have to forgive much of the rest.

The middle of the book is criticised for people having endless meetings trying to work out what to do, but let's accept that with such an event, what else would happen? There is almost nothing you can do in the time available before the planet loses all its heat. So I found reading about how people might…

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