Spin by Robert Charles WilsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
DESCRIPTION: One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.
REVIEW: An absorbing, well-crafted novel. Robert Charles Wilson casts believable characters, imagines the likely group behaviours of a generation that assumes itself to be the last of its species; and gently, quietly introduces the science.
The answer to the Spin puzzle (perhaps not the correct answer) was managed well and the rising crescendo of the last fifth of pages managed to keep this reader up well past her bedtime. But that increasing tension was oh, so satisfying and well worth the loss of sleep. Am looking forward to reading the next novel of the Spin Saga: Axis .
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