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‘Obelisk’ gathers a selection of Stephen Baxter’s short fiction that takes place within the shared universe of his duology Proxima and Ultima. The volume mixes stories from that setting with imaginative alternate histories and speculative futures, offering readers a compact view of Baxter’s expansive science‑fiction vision.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Speculative Fiction/Speculative Fiction
Authors: Stephen Baxter
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