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. 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. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. 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.įive hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. Xeelee: An Omnibus: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring 1st edition. Stephen Baxters epic sequence of Xeelee novels was introduced to a new generation of readers with his highly successful quartet, Destinys Children.
And what he finds will change his world.Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series!Ī 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.
The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. Beginning with RAFT in 1991, Stephen Baxters epic sequence of Xeelee novels introduced readers to perhaps the most ambitious fictitious universe ever. 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.įive hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups.
Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series!Ī 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.
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