264 pages
English language
Published April 11, 1991 by Grafton Books.
Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present. Raft was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992.
Nic prevratnyho, lehci cteni. Mistama trosku na hrane uveritelnosti, ale tak je to space opera.
V kazdym pripade slusnej otvirak do serie, dalsi dil uz ceka ... mozna dame hned, mozna s pauzou :)
Pretty good. More like 3.5 stars, but 4 will do.
A creative and thought-provoking tale. Excellent work.
The start was somewhat confusing: normally I don't mind an in medias res beginning but for some reason this time it annoyed me more than it interested me. Soon though, the story started proper and things fell in place. It's an interesting world and I am probably going to read more novels in the Xeelee sequence but I wish the characters were a bit more rounded, a bit more interesting. They seemed formed by the gravity in that nebula: as flat as possible.
I know, gravity forces matter into spheres...
