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Journey to Alpha Centauri: Exploring New Earths: Proxima Centauri B
Paperback
Series: The Cosmos and Beyond, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 19 2024
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.66 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Humanity has crossed the interstellar gulf.
The starship Asteria reaches Alpha Centauri carrying generations of human ambition, scientific knowledge, and one overriding question: can another world become home without humanity repeating the mistakes it made on Earth?
On Gaeria, the answer is more complicated than anyone imagined.
The planet is alive-not merely habitable, but inhabited by a vast and interconnected native biosphere. Its landscapes, organisms, underground networks, and unfamiliar ecological relationships force the settlers to abandon the assumption that survival gives them ownership. Every decision-from building habitats and growing food to raising children under stronger gravity-becomes a negotiation between human necessity and an alien world that existed long before them.
Years become decades. Decades become centuries.
The first outpost becomes North Rise. Orbital habitats become permanent societies. Children born beneath another sun grow into adults physically and culturally different from their Earth-born ancestors. Political institutions evolve. History becomes legend. And the fragile quantum connection to Earth eventually falls silent.
Then something disturbs the dead relay.
What follows forces Gaeria's descendants to confront the oldest question carried aboard Asteria: what does humanity owe the worlds it reaches-and the civilizations it may one day encounter?
Journey to Alpha Centauri is a multigenerational science-fiction novel of interstellar exploration, alien ecology, planetary settlement, human adaptation, scientific uncertainty, and the emergence of a civilization no longer defined solely by Earth.
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