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Ring

Ring

by Stephen Baxter

Time travelFictionFiction, science fiction, general
3.9
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

From back cover Harper paperback June 1996: 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....

Themes & subjects

Time travelFictionFiction, science fiction, general

About the author

Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter

13 November 1957

Author

Stephen Baxter

Pages

496

Read time

≈ 12h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

HarperPrism

ISBN

9780575128330

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