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by Robert Charles Wilson (Author) "Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere ..." (more)
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One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking "what if," Wilson (Blind Lake, etc.) builds an astonishingly successful mélange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres. The narrative time oscillates effortlessly between Tyler Dupree's early adolescence and his near-future young manhood haunted by the impending death of the sun and the earth. Tyler's best friends, twins Diane and Jason Lawton, take two divergent paths: Diane into a troubling religious cult of the end, Jason into impassioned scientific research to discover the nature of the galactic Hypotheticals whose "Spin" suddenly sealed Earth in a "cosmic baggie," making one of its days equal to a hundred million years in the universe beyond. As convincing as Wilson's scientific hypothesizing is--biological, astrophysical, medical--he excels even more dramatically with the infinitely intricate, minutely nuanced relationships among Jason, Diane and Tyler, whose older self tries to save them both with medicines from Mars, terraformed through Jason's genius into an incubator for new humanity. This brilliant excursion into the deepest inner and farthest outer spaces offers doorways into new worlds--if only humankind strives and seeks and finds and will not yield compassion for our fellow beings. Agent, Shawna McCarthy. (Apr. 14)
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"Robert Charles Wilson is a hell of a storyteller."
--Stephen King
 
“One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking ‘what if,’ Wilson builds an astonishingly successful mélange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres.”
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Spin

“Robert Charles Wilson is one of the best science-fiction writers alive, a fact borne out in his latest work… Spin is the best science-fiction novel so far this year.”
--Rocky Mountain News

“Wilson’s most ambitious and most successful novel to date…Wide-ranging and well-crafted.”
--San Diego Union-Tribune on Spin

“The long-anticipated marriage between the hard sf novel and the literary novel, resulting in an offspring possessing the robust ideational vigor of the former with the graceful narrative subtleties of the latter, might finally have occurred in the form of Robert Charles Wilson's Spin. 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….Wilson does so many fine things, it's hard to know where to begin to praise him.”
--The Washington Post

“Of all SF writers currently active, Robert Charles Wilson may well be the best at balancing cosmic drama with human drama…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

"One of SF's distinctive qualities, often derided by mainstream critics as a weakness, is its literalization of metaphor, but Wilson's masterful exploitation of the Membrane's fictional possibilities provides an exhilarating demonstration of why precisely the opposite can be true...Spin is also a family drama that would not be out of place on mainstream shelves...Spin is a provocative, frequently dazzling read."
--SCIFI.COM

“A subtle and thought-provoking writer. Just when the reader thinks he knows where Wilson is going, he finds himself somewhere else entirely.”
--Robin Hobb on Robert Charles Wilson

“Robert Charles Wilson continues to surprise and delight. I can’t think of another science fiction writer who understands the strengths of the genre so well and who works with such confidence within its elastic boundaries…Wilson never loses sight of the human angle. His theme is the importance of communication, which, as his characters come to learn, should never remain one-way.”
--The New York Times on Blind Lake

“A superior SF thriller.”
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Blind Lake

“Fizzing with ideas…Intense, absorbing, memorable.”
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Blind Lake

“The steely quiet of Blind Lake draws you in like a magnet…Wilson does not ever raise his voice, which does not mean he speaks softly. How he speaks is still. In his calm, stony exile’s gaze upon the prisons of the world, and in his measured adherence to storylines that say that everything may become a little better with much work, he is the most purely Canadian of all the writers brought together here, and Blind Lake is the finest Canadian novel of all these.”
--John Clute, Toronto Globe and Mail


�An astonishingly successful m�lange of SF thriller, growing-up saga... and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres.� (Publishers Weekly )

�Wilson is one of the best science-fiction writers alive� Spin is the best science-fiction novel so far this year.� (Rocky Mountain News )

�Wilson�s most ambitious and most successful novel to date�Wide-ranging and well-crafted.� (San Diego Union-Tribune )

�Wilson does so many fine things, it''s hard to know where to begin to praise him.� (The Washington Post )

�Yhe first major SF novel of 2005, another triumph for Robert Charles Wilson in a long string of triumphs.� (Locus )

"Spin is a family drama that would not be out of place on mainstream shelves... a provocative, frequently dazzling read." (SCIFI.COM )

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Suberb Book, Mar 7 2007
By Mark Sadler (Burlington, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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I'll make this short and sweet. I finished this book about two months ago and I still can't get it out of my head. This is a perfect blending of a wonderful mind expanding and original story, mixed with characters you come to care about almost immediately. A friend borrowed this book from me who is a newcomer to SF and she loved it. And now another friend is reading it and she just keeps saying, "Wow!". But the next time around, when Robert Charles Wilson releases the sequel, AXIS, in September -- I think they'll be convinced enough to go out and buy their own copies of his new novel. I'm so happy to hear SPIN won the 2006 Hugo Award. Buy it!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable, Oct 2 2006
By A. DAS (AL, USA) - See all my reviews
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I was a big fan of RCWilson ever since Darwinia and Bios. Wilson's newest book, SPIN is his best work to date. As the title of this review states, unforgettable. It truly is. It's been three weeks since I put down the book and I still fondly remember various scenes.

The timeless, patient and often heartbreaking love conveyed by Tyler for Diane throughout the novel is the backdrop of a significant event that has befallen Earth. A shroud of unknown material encompasses our planet where time on Earth progresses as it should, but the rest of the universe experiences time on a furious speed. In the course of forty odd years in Earth time, the universe has aged in billions of years and the curse/shield is finally lifted. Earth and its inhabitants will never be the same again.

The science involved in explaining the shroud is unsound or unsatisfactory in my opinion but that is not the plot driving device. How people cope with the spin and the lives of our protagonists are what makes the pages turn. The branching of religions, politics, technology, wars, quest for human longevity and seeking life in the universe are all caused by the spin and everyone's lives are affected for good or bad.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Have time to spare., Jun 9 2009
By A. Cousins (Hamilton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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I don't believe I've ever been sucked into a SF book like this one. It was virtually impossible to put the book down. I've always been a fan of the ticking-time-bomb writing device, and this is like no other. A 50 year ticking time bomb, who would believe that such a thing could create such urgency? And yet there is a very real sense of urgency and impending doom in this novel and a desperation to find out what the heck is going on. It's bleak, mesmerizing and terrifying, and a very very good read. Well worth every penny.
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