Ring
by Stephen Baxter · first published 1994
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From back cover Harper paperback June 1996: 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 cos
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'Ring' by Stephen Baxter explores the idea of a dark matter form of life. It's a good hard scifi read if you're into that.
on “Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life” ↗You can buy a used copy from Amazon with shipping cheaper than the ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Xeelee-Sequence-Stephen-Baxter/d...
on “It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM” ↗Reminds me of Ring (Stephen Baxter), especially the AI construct Lieserl whose job was to get inside the sun to figure out why it was cooling down.
on “Is our Sun falling silent?” ↗Part of Stephen Baxter's book Ring describes a large scale (as in population) interstellar trip and engineering the population making that trip for a long lifespan via eugenics. If I recall correctly, the described humans were living…
on “Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)” ↗Also made me think of Stephen Baxter's Ring...with those photino birds that drain stars.
on “Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky” ↗It was one of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee series, I believe it was Ring.
on “An end to all this prostate trouble?” ↗