num_pages: 303
description: The survival of humankind.Imagine a universe whose force of gravity is one billion times stronger than today's. Human beings have detectable gravity fields. Stars are only a mile across and burn out within a year of their formation.Centuries before these events, a spaceship accidentally crossed into this universe and promptly collapsed upon itself. Somehow the crew survived. They emerged into a cloud of breathable atmosphere. Five centuries later their descendants are still struggling for existence...
language: English
title: Raft
titlecomplete: Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Classics, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction
ratings_count: 3974
series: Xeelee Sequence
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award
publisher: Ace