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Raft
Xeelee (Related to this series)
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- Narrator
- Jonathan Keeble
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 4 June 2020
- Run Time
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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"Simply amazing science fiction that will have me grabbing book two" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
"one of the best scifi concepts out there" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars
Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence.
A spaceship from Earth accidentally survives the transition to a radically different universe. Five-hundred-years later, their descendants still struggle for existence. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star. They trade for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, and where a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible.
Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him a stowaway on a flying tree. And what he finds will change his world...
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Details
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- Narrator
- Jonathan Keeble
- Duration
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 June 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473232211
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Science fiction, Science fiction: space opera, Adventure / action fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
"Such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilisation in it" - The Times"Simply amazing science fiction that will have me grabbing book two" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars"one of the best scifi concepts out there" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsStephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence.A spaceship from Earth accidentally survives the transition to a radically different universe. Five-hundred-years later, their descendants still struggle for existence. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star. They trade for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, and where a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible.Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him a stowaway on a flying tree. And what he finds will change his world...
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