# Raft

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- Book: [Raft](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter/raft) ([Raft.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter/raft.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter), [Jonathan Keeble](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-keeble)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7323-221-1
- Published: 2020-06-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

" Such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilisation in it" - The Times " Simply amazing science fiction that will have me grabbing book two" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars " one of the best scifi concepts out there" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars 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...