I like alternative histories, it is a completely unmined field of novel entertainment, if done right. This one is done terribly wrong.
Stephen Baxter has good premise and an interesting tale, but there are some plotting problems that keep the novel from rising to a four star. What began in the first novel, Proxima, as a tale of forced settlement of Earth's nearest interstellar neighbor becomes in the second installment a confused tale of alternate realities.
In many aspects, Ultima takes what we got in Proxima and elevates it to the next level. The adventure twists, turns, and comes full circle.
Ian Baxter
Stephen Call
Stephen Brooke
Stephen Bentley
Stephen Mark Silvers
Stephen Littlewood
Stephen Penna
Stephen R. Wilk
Stephen N. Haynes
Stephen Goldsmith
Richard Baxter
Stephen Weller
Stephen J. Galgon
Stephen M. Sanders
Edoh Stephen Owoicho
Stephen Faulkner
Stephen S Senn
Stephen Mennell
Stephen J. Riegel
Stephen Spotswood
Stephen Gibson
Stephen Jones
Stephen Perkins
Stephen P. Walker
Stephen Amos
patricia stephen
Stephen Scoffham
Stephen M. Downes
Stephen J. Page
Stephen J. Cimbala
Stephen Marshak
Stephen Bann
Stephen Arwood
Wright, Stephen
Stephen Peel
Stephen Cheshire
Stephen Rhoades
Stephen King
Colleen Baxter Sullivan
Stephen Law
Daniel Baxter
Stephen Twigge
Stephen M. Cohn
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Spender
Stephen Hetherington
Stephen Rickard
Stephen J. Page
Stephen Spinks
Stephen A. Crist
Stephen Ellcock
Stephen Grummett
Stephen R. Milford
Stephen M. Cohn
Stephen Rickard, Royalties, Stephen
Megan Stone
Irene E. Schoenberg
S. Tamer Cavusgil
Martha J. Kolln
Laurie J. Mullins
Lynn Bulock
Randall J. LeVeque
Lena Kennedy
Maria V. Snyder
Paul Roberts
Kenneth L. Fisher
Brett Stewart
Christopher Wilkinson
Waldo Emerson Nelson
Diego Gabriel Krivochen
John Sutton
Franz Kafka
Chris Ollerenshaw
Simon Hudson
Jo Tuckman
Cynthia Snyder Stackpole
Diana Woodburn
Amber Dermot
Pamela Yaye
Eva Novotny
Annie McKee
John Lutz
Jeremy MacClancy
Rachel Pasqua
Vilijandas Bagdonavicius
Roland A. Jansen
Jonathan Holt
Joao B. P. Soares
Neil Pollack
Andy Wightman
Bella Forrest
Georges Voyiadjis
Didier Decoster
Michelle Rowen
Sarah Mallory
Linda Conrad
Kate Proctor
Patricia Thayer
Gena Showalter
She and He
Nathaniel William Wraxall
Deborah J. Rumsey
Peter Godwin
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
John Wild
Anatoly V. Zayats
Gregory Hansen