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...
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