Ring

Stephen Baxter

Book 4 of Xeelee Sequence

Language: English

Publisher: Eos

Published: Jan 1, 1994

Pages: 531
ABC: 23

Description:

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...** **