464 pages

English language

Published Feb. 7, 2006

ISBN:
978-0-7653-4825-8
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Spin is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was published in 2005 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. It is the first book in the Spin trilogy, with Axis (the second) published in 2007 and Vortex published in July 2011. In January 2015, Syfy announced it was developing a six-hour miniseries based on the book.

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Review of 'Spin' on 'Goodreads'

J'ai rarement lu de livre me laissant, malgré sa qualité, une impression aussi contrastée.
Comme dans [b:Isolation|156786|Isolation|Greg Egan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1454771182s/156786.jpg|1270545], le roman commence avec l'isolation de la Terre dans une espèce de globe opaque au reste de l'univers (qui donne le titre de Spin au roman). Et cet événement, qui dans "isolation" servait de toile de fond, est ici le coeur du roman, l'énigme qui met en mouvement l'ensemble des personnages de ce récit.
Et des personnages, il y en a trois : le génie scientifique qui va chercher à comprendre cette barrière par la science, la femme sensible qui va chercher le sens du côté de la religion, et le témoin neutre qui nous sert de narrateur et qui va être au coeur du récit. Autour de ces personnages principaux, des personnages secondaires vont orbiter, chacun décrit avec une économie de moyen, mais une puissance dans les résultats, que j'ai trouvé …

Review of 'Spin' on 'Goodreads'

Occasionally falls victim to the common science fiction problem of writing every character with the same voice, since they're all just empty vessels for the author to express the BIG GRAND IDEAS and THEMES they're OH SO PROUD of. Despite this minor problem (and really, when it's so common as to almost be a genre trope, it is really a 'problem'?), Spin is a really interesting book and, more importantly, one that remains interesting throughout.

Review of 'Spin' on 'Goodreads'

I like this book, but found the ending anticlimactic. The plot development got a little choppy, with all the flashbacks and flash-forwards. The storyline itself wasn't hard to follow, developing nicely with the characters.

I can't really put this book into the "Hard" Science Fiction category. I had a couple of moments of "suspension of disbelief". Logic holes are never good in Hard SciFi. And there was a bit too much of the Black Box technique, whereby we are forced to just accept without explanation that this thing works.

Hence, the two stars. I might be a touch stingy with my star ratings. I looked over my first wave of books, and found that everything was at least four stars. I did like this book, but I'm getting cranky as I use this website more and more.

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