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Raft

Xeelee Sequence, Book 1

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Raft

By: Stephen Baxter
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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 "Such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilisation in it" - The Times


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...©2020 Stephen Baxter (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Adventure Fiction First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera
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I first read this book years ago as a kid, coming back it may not be the best written book ever but the setting and story are so, so utterly fantastic, and unique....and for once that term isn't hyperbolic, that It was well worth coming back to all these years later.

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This is just a good romp through a strange world. Timeless read. Characters and dialog aren’t so strong but this is more than compensated by the weird universe.

Refreshingly fantastic

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