Readers will get to know the three key characters in a way similar to the trio of heroes of Starship Troopers, three close friends–actually a set of twins, Jason and Diane Lawton, and their male friend, Tyler Dupree–have a normal life until the age of 12, when at a get-together they look up into the sky and the stars vanish. Sixteen years later the content and science holds up well. Spin is “old school” science fiction of the 1950s vintage, addressing a hypothetical construct, placing it in the present, and that present could be 2005 or 2021, and digging in to flesh out the possibilities. Wilson’s The Andromeda Evolution, another intriguing, creative tale that made readers believe the unlikely was possible.įirst published in 2005 the novel received much acclaim from science fiction readers, including the Hugo Award.
Somehow Wilson connects the dots between the absurd and the improbable with the realities of the human condition to arrive at a story similar to Daniel H. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a giant black barrier has blocked the atmosphere so we no longer see the Sun, the Moon, or the Stars, but some secret force is protecting the Earth from the effects of such an occurrence.
Like the inexplicable monolith of Arthur C. The sub-genres covered are a mix of apocalypse, speculative fiction, and Martians, but not quite the aliens of H.G. A broad, epic story that traverses literally billions of years from the vantage of a doctor living on Earth, the novel packs a lot of ideas into 300 pages. One of those 21st century titles is a well-constructed gem, Canadian author Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin. Tor Essentials is a new library of backlist science fiction and fantasy novels from Macmillan Publishing’s Tor imprint, so far featuring 15 novels plucked from the past few decades.
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