Axis (Spin, #2) by Robert Charles Wilson Narrator: Scott Brick
Series: Spin #2
on September 18, 2007
Genres: Science-Fiction
Pages: 303
Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
Format: Audiobook
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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 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.
This isn’t a direct sequel to Spin. The story takes place 30 years after Tyler and Diane crossed the arch, and the main action takes place on the planet on the other side.
From the previous book, only Diane makes an appearance. In general, I found the characters in this book a lot less developed, and their relationships very superficial, including the romance between the two main characters.
Again, this story doesn’t really focus on what I would have liked to know, which is aliens, but more on how the situation affects humans. A cult is again part of the story, having more weight here than in the previous book.
Just an okay book. I’m starting to fear that not even book 3 will answer my questions.
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