Xeelee #01 - Raft
โ Scribed by Baxter, Stephen
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Pb
- Year
- 1991;1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Review
'Raft is fast paced, strong on suspense, efficiently written, and has moral weight, but it is in the creation of a genuinely strange and believable new universe that Baxter excels! rigorous, vigorous SF at its enjoyable best' Time Out 'Almost perfect! Raft is very, very hard SF and it's great fun' Interzone 'This debut novel polishes its ideas with such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilization in it' The Times
About the Author
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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