{"product_id":"raft","title":"Raft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Raft (Hardcover, 256 pages – Gollancz, 2018) – Gollancz, 2018. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53097993339104,"sku":"9781473224056","price":103.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/71pFWy7OpoL._SY522.jpg?v=1781691044","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/raft","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}