Stephen Baxter 'Space'
A true Sci-Fi epic of space & time. It begins with the discovery of alien life here in the solar system and follows the adventures of a group of characters as they travel further and further into a distant and violent future, exploring along the way the evolution and environmental impact of intelligent life on a, literally, universal scale. I believe that Baxter is a physicist by training and the book abounds with the kind of physics based speculation that can make this sort of book fun. Unfortunately things like pacing and characterization seem to be left out of the equation. Bluntly, I thought that the book was much too long for the material with the same vision of environmental over exploitation and the transient nature of life repeated a few times too often. This one is for Sci-Fi diehards only.
454 pages, published by HarperCollins.
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