Xeelee Sequence · Book 1
Raft
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9780586210918
- Type
- novel
About this book
Raft, written by Stephen Baxter, is the entry in the Xeelee Sequence series that precedes Timelike Infinity, published in 1991. It spans 272 pages. It is the book that opened the series.
Its place in Xeelee Sequence
Raft is book 1 in the Xeelee Sequence series. It is followed by Timelike Infinity. See the full Xeelee Sequence reading order.
Stephen Baxter's signature achievement is a hard-SF future history spanning from the near future to the death of the universe and beyond, built around the Xeelee, an ancient, almost incomprehensibly advanced species locked in a cosmic-scale war against dark matter creatures for control of the universe's baryonic matter -- a war humanity discovers it is, at best, a minor participant in. Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Flux (1993) and Ring (1994) form the core of the original sequence, each following…
Editions
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