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Spin (Spin, #1) by Robert Charles Wilson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers WeeklyOne night the stars go out. From that breathtaking "what if," Wilson (_Blind Lake_, etc._) _builds an astonishingly successful mélange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres. The narrative time oscillates effortlessly between Tyler Dupree's early adolescence and his near-future young manhood haunted by the impending death of the sun and the earth. Tyler's best friends, twins Diane and Jason Lawton, take two divergent paths: Diane into a troubling religious cult of the end, Jason into impassioned scientific research to discover the nature of the galactic Hypotheticals whose "Spin" suddenly sealed Earth in a "cosmic baggie," making one of its days equal to a hundred million years in the universe beyond. As convincing as Wilson's scientific hypothesizing is--biological, astrophysical, medical--he excels even more dramatically with the infinitely intricate, minutely nuanced relationships among Jason, Diane and Tyler, whose older self tries to save them both with medicines from Mars, terraformed through Jason's genius into an incubator for new hum

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Author
Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher
Tor Science Fiction
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9780765348258
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
Rating
4.01 / 5 (26,520 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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