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...
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...
I've always loved star gazing. Perhaps it was Greek mythology that hooked me; I could look up and find the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, and later transform them into Ursa Major and Minor. Cassiopeia would appear late in the summer, arms outstretched on her throne. Orion was easy to pick out, and o...
Interesting speculative piece based on an even that can be neither a catastrophe nor the coming of the second age. As a sociologist, the reaction of the people involved and the news stories about what happens to society, the sociopolitical structure, was interesting and plausible (if a bit unreason...
Spin is a Hugo award winner that wonders what would happen if the earth were forced to remain as it is while the universe around us aged at approximately 100 million years per earth year. as far as scifi concepts go, it is a fairly mind-boggling one. to compound matters further, scientists quickly r...
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