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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7505722" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>I'm now halfway through Stephen Baxter's <em>Raft</em>, the story of the descendants of a ruined starship that came from our universe to another with a different set of physics. The Raft is all that remains of the original ship: a stable platform upon which a city has been built. They're inside a nebula, mining star kernels for metal. The whole setup is very reminiscent of Larry Niven's <em>The Smoke Ring</em> and <em>The Integral Trees</em>; there's even a multi-trunked natural tree that grows in the nebula and is harvested as a means of propulsion by the humans. (A bunch of these tethered wheel-shaped trees keep the Raft in place instead of falling into the black hole at the center of the nebula.) In any case, it's been a good read thus far, with an interesting protagonist (a "mine rat" who stows away aboard one of the wheel-trees and ends up on the Raft, where be eventually is trained as a scientist) and an intriguing universe, where the force of gravity is about a billion times what it is in ours. (Humans even have a gravitational field around the centers of their mass.)</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7505722, member: 508"] I'm now halfway through Stephen Baxter's [i]Raft[/i], the story of the descendants of a ruined starship that came from our universe to another with a different set of physics. The Raft is all that remains of the original ship: a stable platform upon which a city has been built. They're inside a nebula, mining star kernels for metal. The whole setup is very reminiscent of Larry Niven's [i]The Smoke Ring[/i] and [i]The Integral Trees[/i]; there's even a multi-trunked natural tree that grows in the nebula and is harvested as a means of propulsion by the humans. (A bunch of these tethered wheel-shaped trees keep the Raft in place instead of falling into the black hole at the center of the nebula.) In any case, it's been a good read thus far, with an interesting protagonist (a "mine rat" who stows away aboard one of the wheel-trees and ends up on the Raft, where be eventually is trained as a scientist) and an intriguing universe, where the force of gravity is about a billion times what it is in ours. (Humans even have a gravitational field around the centers of their mass.) Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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