Raft
Author(s): Stephen Baxter
SECONDHAND BOOKS | Science Fiction
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...
1992. Special Overseas edition. A near fine copy with light tanning to the edges of the pages and a remainder line to the bottom edge. A very clean, tight copy of this authors first book. Scans available if required.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Grafton, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
- : 0.136078
- : 01 June 1992
- : 1.11 Inches X 6.11 Inches X 8.11 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : 256
- : 823.9/14
- : Paperback
- : Stephen Baxter