Ring

Stephen Baxter

Book 4 of Xeelee

Language: English

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Science Fiction

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: Jan 2, 1994

Date Read: Dec 1, 1998
Form: Novel
Pages: 536
Read Status: read
Shelves: read
Word Count: 139742

Description:

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. **It worked. Too well.** 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. **The universe had a door. And it was open...** ** ### About the Author Stephen Baxter is an acclaimed, multiple-award-winning author whose many books include the Xeelee Sequence series, the Time Odyssey trilogy (written with Arthur C. Clarke), and *The Time Ships*, a sequel to H. G. Wells's classic *The Time Machine*. He lives in England.