Raft (S.F. Masterworks) (Gateway Essentials)

by Stephen Baxter

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Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence.

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...

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  • ISBN10 0246137061
  • ISBN13 9780246137067
  • Publish Date 11 July 1991
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 November 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Grafton
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English