Ring (Xeelee Sequence #4) by Stephen Baxter
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: June 1996
- 512pp
- Sales Rank: 277,598
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 1996
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 512pp
- Sales Rank: 277,598
- Series: Xeelee Sequence, #4
- ISBN-13: 9780061056949
- ISBN: 0061056944
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time.
Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS—and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very string of the cosmos.
Harry Harrison
"Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein...now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks!" -- New Scientist
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A two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and recipient of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Stephen Baxter has also been a Hugo nominee as well as the winner of numerous other literary prizes for his novels and short fiction. A trained engineer who took a first-class honors degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he also has a doctorate in aeroengineering research from Southhampton University. He is the author of eleven science fiction novels and four novels for young adults. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.
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February 10, 2003: Explores the nature of humans, and the difference the environment makes on the mindset of individuals. Well elaborated characters and a carefully thought out plot.
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