Axis Author:Robert Charles Wilson Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won science fiction’s highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. — Now, in Spin’s direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth ... more »by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world--and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria.
Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed--as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.« less
In this sequel to the Hugo-winning Spin, Wilson answers some questions and raises others. As in most of his novels, he creates rich characters that make sense in the world they inhabit. Recommended.
Though a lot shorter than Spin, I enjoyed this sequel. Its not as heavy a read as the first book but Wilson still provides an unexpected and satisfying ending that had me guessing until the conclusion. The story does a nice job of pushing the over-all story line and setting up questions for a future book, all the while being a interesting story in its own right.