Creation Node
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Narrated by:
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Hanako Footman
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By:
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Stephen Baxter
About this listen
In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet.
Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Something not quite human.
As the ramifications of this event spread across the fracturing elements of humanity, it is clear that the small crew on the spot are at the centre of the most dramatic discovery in history. But theirs is not the only inexplicable event happening - impossibly, at exactly the same moment, a quasar appeared twenty-five thousand light years away, and now is heating up the solar system.
If the enigma of the creation node is not solved quickly, there may be no one left to investigate it...
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- Bob Conrod
- 14-04-24
4.5 wasn’t an option
4.5 stars wasn’t an option, if it were then that would be my score for this book. It was great most of the way through but, the ending, for me personally, was a tad underwhelming
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- Anonymous User
- 02-11-23
Fantastic
I’m an age old fan of Stephen Baxter, and this is one of his best yet. Rich in science, if anything I wish this wasn’t a single book but a series (I mean, a series telling the story of this one book), to include even more character development and details about this world. One criticism - DNA is made up of nucleotides, not amino acids. As a molecular biologist this stood out to me, but please do not take it as an overall indicator of the science described here. Loved it.
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- Andrew
- 26-01-24
A discussion about the multiverse
The author evidentially wanted to chat about then multiverse and uses the characters to endlessly discuss and speculate about it. For example, having just met a near godlike creature of the multiverse they spend time discussing amongst themselves instead of asking god to explain.
However, just about enough story to keep me moderately engaged.
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- Ruud
- 25-02-24
Disappointing finish.
I do not want to spoil things but I am more into science as religion.
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- Poorly Marked
- 03-12-23
Dated
Bland, superficial box ticking exercise. Baxters last book did this as well and it makes the cast feel like American propaganda pieces when they all act like personality-less drones with suspiciosly spot on demographic distribution. It's clear the authors attention went on box ticking when it really should have gone on giving them actual personalities and compelling stories.
Blue Remembered Earth respectfully and intelligently details African culture into a fully realized sci fi world, with detailed and varied characters. This book ticks the standard checkboxes and calls it a day, there are no surprises and the plot is dull and predictable as a result.
Fine for a 2016 TV commercial, but does not cut it for a major entertainment piece in this day and age. A full novel needs more to hang off than box ticking and empty tokenism.
Voice performance is great, she deserved a better setting than this.
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