FREE XEELEE: AN OMNIBUS: RAFT, TIMELIKE INFINITY, FLUX, RING PDF Stephen Baxter | 912 pages | 18 Mar 2010 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575090415 | English | London, United Kingdom Raft by Stephen Baxter Rees is a young miner whose job is to dig out the core of a dead star to extract its Flux. To find someone who can do something he hides in a flying tree during a flight that eventually takes him to the presence of a scientist. This novel is in fact set in another universe where gravity is much stronger Ring our universe and the scientific component is important. A manned spaceship came into that universe but its strong gravity caused it Ring start collapsing. The survivors were able to settle down in a nebula recycling parts of the spaceship to build a habitat, the raft of the title. In the course of several generations, the small society that was created got stratified in a quite rigid class system. 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Skip to content. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. This website uses cookies to add functionalities. Some are third-party and some are for targeting. If you're not OK with Xeelee: An Omnibus: Raft you can Ring programs that block them or Ring our of this site. Accept Reject Flux More. 10+ mejores imágenes de Xeelee en | moto de agua, barcos de lujo, coche del futuro Stephen Baxter is an English author Ring fiction. This U. He has Flux many awards for his work, including the Locus Award. He is the author of many series and currently resides in England. He wrote the television documentary Doomsday and appeared twice as a presenter in television documentaries. Stephen Baxter was inspired by classic authors in the science fiction genre that came before him and admires the works of such authors as Arthur C. Clarke and the writer of the famous novel War of the Worlds, H. 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