Spin Mass market paperbound - 2006
by Robert Charles Wilson
In this spectacular novel of immense scope, an artificial, alien barrier is placed around the Earth, the moon and stars disappear, and scientists discover that time is passing faster outside the barrier than it is on the planet.
From the rear cover
"HERE'S A BOOK that features speculative conceits as brash and thrilling as those found in any space opera, along with insights into the human condition as rich as those contained within any mainstream mimetic fiction, with both its conceits and insights beautifully embedded in crystalline prose...The time is the day after tomorrow, and three adolescents--Diane and Jason Lawton, twins, and their best friend, Tyler Dupree--are out stargazing. Thus they witness the erection of a planet-spanning shield around the globe, blocking out the universe. Spin chronicles the next 30-odd years in the lives of the trio, during which 300 billion years will pass outside the shield, thanks to an engineered time discontinuity. Jason, a genius, will invest his celibate life in unraveling cosmological mysteries. Tyler will become a doctor and act as our narrator and as Jason's confidante, while nursing his unrequited love for Diane, who in turn plunges into religious fanaticism. Along the way human-descended Martians will appear, bringing a drug that can elevate humans to the Fourth State, 'an adulthood beyond adulthood.' But will even this miracle be enough to save Earth?"
--The Washington Post "SPIN IS MANY THINGS: psychological novel, technological thriller, apocalyptic picaresque, cosmological meditation. But it is, foremost, the first major SF novel of 2005, another triumph for Robert Charles Wilson in a long string of triumphs."
--Locus
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- Title Spin
- Author Robert Charles Wilson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9780765348258 / 076534825X
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 6.84 x 4.34 x 1.26 in (17.37 x 11.02 x 3.20 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Human-alien encounters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004058862
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Commonweal, 06/19/2009, Page 28
- Science, 06/05/2009, Page 1269
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