Ring

Pages: 512
Published: 1994
Language: English

When Michael Poole's wormhole experiments go awry, he vanishes, leaving behind a hole in time. From a dying future, a desperate SOS arrives, revealing that Poole stumbled upon an immense, cosmic artifact. Humankind's fate now rests on understanding this discovery and the universe's open 'door.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Mysterious Adventurous Intellectual

First Contact Quest Mystery Box

Hard Sci-Fi Science Fiction Space Opera Time Travel

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957 in Liverpool, England) is an English hard science fiction author. He holds a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD in engineering from Southampton, and taught mathematics, physics and information technology before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. His work includes the Xeelee Sequence, the Manifold trilogy, The Time Ships (a sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine), the Time Odyssey trilogy co-written with Arthur C. Clarke, and the Long Earth se...