Many thanks to the publishers for the copy.
Iain M Banks wrote incredibly fun , sometimes moving and always thought provoking Science Fiction - [[The Algebraist by Iain M Banks|The Algebraist]] is just one example.
And it's hard to read Science Fiction without thinking about one of the great masters - Philip K Dick left a huge legacy, and [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]] is a very big part of that.
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|author=Stephen Baxter
|title=Ultima
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In ''Proxima'', alien hatches were discovered across the galaxy, hatches that when opened caused completely unimaginable events to occur - amongst many strange happenings, one character suddenly had a twin she didn't have previously , and one hatch led to a different earth, where the Roman Empire never died.
It is there that ''Ultima'' begins - on a world where the Roman Empire never fell, and the technology and culture is markedly different as a result.
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