Stephen Baxter has for years been demonstrating a fascinating interest in both long-term societal change and alternative history: in some cases on board a spaceship, in others in response to a natural or alien-enforced disaster, a disparate group of people are required first of all to survive the hardship of changed conditions second to try to plan and enact a better future while suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
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