Spin
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781427205407
Publish date: March 5th 2008
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Edition language: English
Series: Spin Saga (#1)
Series: Spin #1 I changed my mind. Three stars feels a little too generous for this so I'm going with 2.5. It's a great concept and wanting to find out what had happened kept me reading. Basically, one night all the stars go out and humanity discovers the entire planet has been enveloped in a we...
dang it, if it hadn't been for the last 50 or so pages, i would've given it 5 stars! how i hate it when this happens!
One flavor of sci-fi that I particular enjoy is when the story is set in the present day. Galaxy spanning future worlds are great, but the sort of scenario where we start off with the present day world we are living in and weirdness ensue is often a lot of fun. It also has the advantage of being imm...
The premise is imaginative and unusual. In a recognizably contemporary world, a planetary-wide shield is placed over the earth blocking the night sky from view--outside that shield, over 200,000 years pass each day and within a generation the sun, a red giant, will swallow the earth. The first per...
What would you do if, one night, all the stars just disappeared?That's just the starting point for 'Spin', one of the most enjoyable sci-fi novels I've read recently. Set in our own solar system, this is an engaging, thought-provoking and eerily plausible story, full of sensawunda, but firmly groun...
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