Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of hisstunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series!A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossedthrough a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity isone billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crewsurvived,aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gassurrounding a black hole,which provided a breathable atmosphere. Fivehundred years later,their descendants still struggle for existence,divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt,a ramshacklering of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star,which they excavatefor raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft,astructure built from the wreckage of the ship,on which a small group ofscientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survivalpossible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stowaway 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...
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781473224056Number of pages: 256Weight: 230 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 22 mm
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