Spin, English edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
Spin is Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo Award-winning masterpiece-a stunning combination of a galactic "what if" and a small-scale, very human story.
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars...
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars...
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Spin is Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo Award-winning masterpiece-a stunning combination of a galactic "what if" and a small-scale, very human story.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.
The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk-a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, a space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside-more than a hundred million years per year on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.
Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses.
Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun-and report back on what they find.
Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Ch. Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson, geboren 1953, lebt in Toronto und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autoren der modernen Science Fiction. Er hat zwölf Romane veröffentlicht, darunter den Bestseller "Die Chronolithen", der 2001 auf der New York Times Bestenliste stand. Neben zahlreichen Nominierungen wurde er mehrfach für seine Romane ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Philip K. Dick Award 1994, dem John W. Campbell Award 2002 und dem Hugo Award 2006.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Ch. Wilson
- 2006, 464 Seiten, Masse: 10,5 x 17,2 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Tor Books
- ISBN-10: 076534825X
- ISBN-13: 9780765348258
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Englisch
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"Robert Charles Wilson is a hell of a storyteller."--Stephen King "One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking 'what if, ' Wilson builds an astonishingly successful melange 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."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review) on "Spin" "Robert Charles Wilson is one of the best science-fiction writers alive, a fact borne out in his latest work "Spin" is the best science-fiction novel so far this year." --"Rocky Mountain News" "Wilson's most ambitious and most successful novel to date Wide-ranging and well-crafted."--"San Diego""""Union""-Tribune "on "Spin" "The long-anticipated marriage between the hard sf novel and the literary novel, resulting in an offspring possessing the robust ideational vigor of the former with the graceful narrative subtleties of the latter, might finally have occurred in the form of Robert Charles Wilson's "Spin." Here's a book that features speculative conceits as brash and thrilling as those found in any space opera, along with insights into the human condition as rich as those contained within any mainstream mimetic fiction, with both its conceits and insights beautifully embedded in crystalline prose .Wilson does so many fine things, it's hard to know where to begin to praise him.""--The ""Washington"" Post" "Of all SF writers currently active, Robert Charles Wilson may well be the best at balancing cosmic drama with human drama "Spin "is many things: psychological novel, technological thriller, apocalyptic picaresque, cosmological meditation. But it is, foremost, the first major SF novel of 2005, another triumph for Robert Charles Wilson in a long string of triumphs."--"Locus" "One of SF's distinctive qualities, often derided by mainstream critics as a weakness, is its literalization of metaphor, but Wilson's masterful exploitat
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