Book

Raft

Baxter, Stephen author, Reynolds, Alastair writer of introduction

2000

Overview

\"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.\"--Provided by publisher

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Subject: Interstellar travel Fiction / Black holes (Astronomy) Fiction / Space colonies Fiction
• ISBN: 1473224055, 9781473224056

Item info:

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR 6052 .A849 R34 2000Z	2	BOOK	AUTOSTORE