Raft

#1 Xeelee

Stephen Baxter

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Gollancz
10 July 2018

Science fiction; Future Society; Space Exploration; Colonisation; Galactic Empires

Series: Gateway Essentials

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...

By: Stephen Baxter
Imprint: Gollancz
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9781473224056
ISBN 10: 1473224055
Series: Gateway Essentials
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. With Terry Pratchett he has co-authored the Long Earth novels. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife. Visit Stephen Baxter's website at www.stephen-baxter.com.