Baxter’s speculative fiction never strays too far from the human element, and the protagonists are put through the wringer. The Malleus Jesu and those who travel in it are merely the tip of the awesomeberg as Baxter continues to deploy his trademark mix of hard science, speculative fiction and human drama in the followup Ultima. Stephen Baxter’s world and time-spanning Proxima ended on a brain-melting cliffhanger: Roman centurions stepping out of a wooden spaceship with SPQR printed on the side, speaking Latin. – Dire warnings of history about to repeat itself from Stephen Baxter’s Ultima Tell him to flee – out of the system, with the greatest acceleration he can muster – tell him to flee as Lex McGregor once fled, with the kernel drive burning. Don’t hover near Mars, waiting to see what happens. “Penny called, ‘Oh, and Mardina – tell that centurion of yours, make him instruct his trierarchus – tell him not to hang around.
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