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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:12/07/2018
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- ISBN:9781473224056
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:12/07/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781473224056
