Ring
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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- '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.
- It was one of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee series, I believe it was Ring.
- You can buy a used copy from Amazon with shipping cheaper than the ebook:
https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Xeelee-Sequence-Stephen-Baxter/d...
- Also made me think of Stephen Baxter's Ring...with those photino birds that drain stars.
- 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 spans greater than 400 years, among other traits, after a handful of generations.
If something as ambitious as Deep Space is your goal, you're probably better off engineering people to make the trip rather than waiting for technology that may never materialize.
- 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.
