Mixedin terms of the ideas I think this is one of the most mindblowing books sci-fi books I've ever read the this the scale and the scope I can only compare to Alistar Reynolds in terms of the ideas the writing's a bit dry
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Ring (1994)
Others: Mixed 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 cosmos. The Universe had a door. And it was open....
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