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Axis

By Robert Charles Wilson

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| Hardcover | 9780765309396

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Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won science fiction’s highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Now, in Spin’s direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious HypothContinue

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won science fiction’s highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Now, in Spin’s direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world--and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria.

Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed--as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.

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  • Axis

    by Robert Charles Wilson Axis, the second volume of a projected trilogy whose first installment, Spin, won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2005, makes a substantial narrative break with the earlier book, beginning some decades after the end of Spin ... (read full critics)

    quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • Axis

    In his Hugo-award winning novel Spin (2005), Robert Charles Wilson managed to deploy a full panoply of both mimetic and speculative narrative tools and conceits. In a single novel he harnessed, side-by-side, the cosmic and the quotidian, creating a s ... (read full critics)

    barnesandnoble published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

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  • Disappointing. A book that basically explores the nature of the "Hypotheticals" who were the driving force of the plot in "Spin".

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