Raft by Stephen Baxter – review

I don't read an awful lot of hard science fiction, but do occasionally get the urge. I love Iain M Banks' work, but I wouldn't classify that as especially hard or sciencey. It's just awesome, and usually as hard as I like it (oo-er, Mrs). But now and then I like to read something by someone with real science chops, like Alistair Reynolds or Greg Egan. I'd never read anything by my namesake, Stephen Baxter (no relation), so when a friend was selling some books on the cheap recently, I...