SF Masterworks: The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves is a gripping science fiction novel set in the year 2100. The invention of the Electron Pump - an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy - has enabled humanity to devote its time and energies to more than the struggle for survival, finally breaking free of the Earth.

However, the Electron Pump works by exchanging materials with a parallel universe, and such unbalancing of the cosmos has consequences:

• Humans and aliens alike must race to prevent a vast nuclear explosion in the heart of the Sun.
• The vaporisation of Earth occurs exactly eight minutes later.