Raft (Paperback)

Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world...

General

Imprint:	Gateway
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Gateway Essentials
Release date:	July 2018
Authors:	Stephen Baxter
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4732-2405-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-4732-2405-5
Barcode:	9781473224056

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