A review by xerxes314
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter

3.0

Some pretty solid science fiction with a side of Roman history. Parts of it read like Baxter read the "Roman Britain" Wikipedia page and decided to paraphrase it in novel form, but lucky for him, I love reading Wikipedia and referred to it several times while reading Coalescent. Some of the plot developments (especially near Regina's death) were pretty far fetched, but in the Xeelee Sequence, time-travel shenanigans mean this sort of thing can be plausible. (Speaking of Regina: name drawn from the Rowling grab-bag of on-the-nose Latinesque names?)