Raft /
"Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present. Raft was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992. The novel is an elaborated version of his...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Grafton Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers,
1991.
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| Summary: | "Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present. Raft was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992. The novel is an elaborated version of his 1989 short story of the same title."--Wikipedia Imagine a universe where the gravitational force is a billion times stronger than on Earth. The population are divided into two groups, the miners and the scientists. Rees is a miner whose curiousity causes him to stow away onto the Raft where he discovers that his world is dying. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library Science Fiction Collection copy donated by Victor W. Horadam. |
| Physical Description: | 264 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0246137061 9780246137067 |