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isolated and under threat of invasion

a blazing vision of suffering

finds herself subject to the attentions of multi-millionaire businessman A

Raft John Betjeman They began to set theirStephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence. A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their