#4 Xeelee Sequence

Ring

Stephen Baxter
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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...
Genres: Science FictionFictionSpace OperaHard Science FictionScience Fiction FantasyFantasyTime TravelNovelsSpeculative FictionAdventure
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