464 pages
Langue : English
Publié 7 février 2006
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.
Content warning spoiler ahead
Arching a whole lifespan. No space opera. But world ending. Time passes like a wind while you read this. A family saga. And marsians!
Cela fait plusieurs années que je devais lire ce roman considéré comme l'un des meilleurs livres de science-fiction des années 2000. Je n'ai pas été déçu, car ce roman est passionnant et vraiment réussi. J'ai ensuite appris que ce n'était que le premier volet d'une trilogie, je vais donc m'empresser de lire le deuxième volet, Axis.
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.
