Coalescent

Stephen Baxter’s new novel, Coalescent: , sounds quite promising – in contrast to his last half dozen or so books, which have uniformly disappointed. It’s the first of three novels, each telling different stories but linked by a far future viewpoint: “Earth subsumed by the evolutionary step of the hive culture in man; a far future earth empire battling for survival against impossibly superior alien life; and a look at the moral conflict existing within a utopia millions of years in the future.”