by Robert Charles Wilson
If you've read my other reviews, you'll know I liked the previous novels, Spin and Axis, a LOT. Sadly, I can't say the same of this final book in the Spin trilogy (this was not entirely unexpected, having read other reviews). It didn't have the same sensawunda for me as Spin and Axis did, nor did I ...
I've been a fan of Robert Charles Wilson for a couple of decades now, since 1992's A Hidden Place. I've enjoyed his generally understated, off-center and off-balance view of the world. So I picked up Spin soon after it came out. While I don't think Spin and its sequel Axis are his best work, they'r...
A fun trilogy. I really liked the idea of slowed time as a tool to use evolution to our advantage in Spin. The second book had a thought provoking bioethics issue at the heart. But all were page turners with a new type of alien, The Hypotheticals.
Asymptotic is the word that comes to mind with this book. It starts out gradually and builds momentum to a gush of revelations in the final chapter or two - the deus ex machina of the author's excellent [b:Spin|910863|Spin|Robert Charles Wilson|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1316636370s/910863.jpg|47...
Not his best, I think, but not bad at all. This is the third in a 3-book series, so it has some exposition to take care of. Wilson manages this through a couple of strategies--a framing narrative, a text within the framing narrative, a person out of his time element and his cultural translator, and ...
I don't often read book series. Usually, I find that the first book is great and the next 2 books are mediocre at best. I think that, for me, this series kept my attention because I haven't branched much into the harder sub-genres of science fiction. So, this was my first literary taste of terraform...
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