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Book cover design by David Stevenson. STEPHEN BAXTER Coalescent was a book that frustrated me terribly. Brilliant for most of its length, Stephen Baxter let it all get away from him in a lousy ending. Exultant is better in that it's a more consistent and confidently realized work, and yet it frustrated me at times for reasons all its own. In the final analysis I have to allow that it's a stronger book, but only just. While Baxter's Destiny's Children trilogy isn't lacking for ambition, the execution is where it often comes up wanting. Where Coalescent focused on the distant past and the present day, Exultant Coalescent from this novel, the Earth was occupied by invading aliens called the Qax; that they were eventually driven off; and that humanity has since explored a great deal of the Milky Way, at times playing the role of alien invaders ourselves. This is a lush history that could itself make for several exciting stories. But it serves as a tantalizing backdrop to | |
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