false 910863 7 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. <i>Spin</i> 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? 47562 1 1 2005 Spin total:1286|5:398|4:572|3:252|2:60|1:4| 1286 5158 1842 257 5 6 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 23:49:09 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 21:32:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 12:29:19 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 10:34:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 05:25:54 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 08:21:02 -0700 2007
This is the sort of book that I babble about. It's hard to write down what's good about it because everything about it is good. Everything about it is amazing, really, so t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 11:13:58 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 11:49:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 07:09:26 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 10:43:42 -0700 2009
The difficulty is being able to tell you much about the book. Every chapter contains either a huge ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Mar 18 04:03:02 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 04:33:23 -0700 2008
On a bright summer evening, three children on the cusp of teenhood witness the impossib...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 31 06:55:09 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 05:32:15 -0800 2008 The Chronoliths that I went right ahead and jumped into this book without hesitation. Of course, I was not disappointed. At least not too much, but I'll get to that later.

It is the near future, as these stories so often are, and one night the stars go ou...more...]]> 5 2 false true Mon Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 09 17:33:12 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 14 11:49:38 -0800 2008 Spin won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novel and deservedly so. It is science fiction in all the stereotypical ways--it includes space/time travel, advanced technology, planetary exploration, even an alien--but it goes well beyond this, interweaving explanation of the technology with character develo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 25 17:05:30 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 17:07:06 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Mon Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jan 14 11:33:34 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 07 17:50:38 -0700 2008 Spin was my third exposure to Robert Charles Wilson, a writer who has yet to disappoint me. He is not a "hard" sci-fi writer. Instead, the author writes about regular people and their ways of coping with major changes in their lives and environments. Spin is a very compelling story wit...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 15:56:46 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:04:45 -0800 2009 1... so far. Spin five stars is because it was painfully difficult to put down (I lost sleep over this one), and truly engrossing. Robert Charles Wilson creates such dynamic characters of such differing mindsets that it's quite enticing to follow along and see what becomes of them. Mostly the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 12 20:01:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 20:07:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 28 08:43:01 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 08:43:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 26 12:51:40 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 13:01:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 23 08:29:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 08:36:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 08:48:27 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 08:56:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 21 17:15:15 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 17:15:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 11 19:07:31 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 19:08:35 -0700 2009
This is the story of how eleven-year-old Tyler Dupree's infatuation with the girl next door lasts for 4 billion years. And yes, that's way too long.

Frank Drake used to speculate about how the extraterrestrials must already have invented immortality, and in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 11 03:42:45 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 05:16:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 05:00:53 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 05:10:52 -0700 2008 more...]]>