Raft is a
science fiction novel by
Stephen Baxter. The story of humans struggling to survive after being accidentally transported 500 years ago into a universe where the force of
gravity is one billion times stronger than ours.
Stars are only a
mile across, and burn out within a year, even people have a detectable gravity field
But their ramshackle wreck of a ship, the Raft, is in danger....
This is Stephen Baxter's first book; links and references to this imagined universe can be found in some of his other novels.