Axis Spin Book 2 eBook Robert Charles Wilson
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The World Next Door.
Engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, it's connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world - and, predictably, 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 ago. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometime drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny Hypothetical machines.
Now Lise, Turk, a Martian woman, and a boy who has been engineered to communicate with the Hypotheticals, are drawn to a place in the desert where this seemingly hospitable world has become suddenly very alien indeed - and the nature of time is being once again twisted by entities unknown.
Axis Spin Book 2 eBook Robert Charles Wilson
After reading this book I am now certain that RC Wilson is my favorite writer of science fiction, and one of my favorite authors in any genre. What I love about Wilson is that he creates outrageously trippy situations that are experienced by ordinary people. The people he creates are interesting and believable. The trippy situations are backed up by enough science to make them feel plausible - but not enough to take away the wonder or make his novels read like textbooks. I have actually sighed with contentment after reading his books, and thought to myself, "this is the way science fiction is supposed to be."Axis is no exception. I could not put it down, and it is as trippy a book as I have ever read. At times, it makes me think of Lem's Solaris, though I enjoyed Axis much more. At other times, it made me think of the more psychedelic covers of 1970s SF paperbacks - in a very good way. (and with that said, I so wish for different cover art on this book, but I can understand why that might have been avoided.) Or Dali paintings. Occasionally I got a whiff of Lovecraft.
But all of this written in clear, unpretentious language, with believable characters, and a story worthy of Stephen King. I loved this book and can't yet decide if I like it more than Spin or if they are in a dead heat for my favorite SF novel ever. (I have not yet read Vortex.)
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Axis Spin Book 2 eBook Robert Charles Wilson Reviews
Like most middle books in a trilogy, this one suffers if you think of it as a stand alone book. The premise set up in the first book, Spin, is fleshed out more here. The enclosure of Earth and Mars are now memories to most people on Earth and the planet it connects to, Equatoria. And if that sentence didn't make sense, then that's okay. Because you need to read Spin to understand this book. But that's true for any trilogy. Would Tolkien's The Two Towers have made sense if one had not first read The Fellowship of the Ring?
Most of the protagonists from Spin are now dead, but the Hypotheticals still remain a mystery. As an aside, I read Spin back in December 2007. It really is better to just read a trilogy back to back to back. There was a certain sense of displacement when reading Axis, but quickly one was grounded as the plot unfolds. The plot centers on a few characters, but really it is Isaac, who was genetically engineered to communicate with the Hypotheticals, that is the center of this book. All the characters fate center around Isaac and whether he will succeed in communicating with the Hypotheticals now that it seems some occurrence is bringing the denizens of Equatoria into closer contact with those Hypotheticals. Will Isaac succeed? Will he be stopped by those afraid of this new, possible future? Those questions are, fortunately, answered by the end of this book.
And now on to the conclusion to this trilogy, where hopefully more will be answered.
(Semi-spoilers included.) Sequel to Spin which I enjoyed. Although well-written and enjoyable I’m not inclined to read book #3. This book takes place on the new planet (see synopsis of Spin) some years after the first. Only one character from the first book is still alive and doesn’t appear until halfway through the book and in a somewhat minor role. The new characters are engaging though. A civilization has developed on the new planet but is disrupted when several ashfalls occur, each filled with tiny cogs and circuits. The speculation is that these are decayed parts of the machine intelligence that created the shell around Earth. Meanwhile, a group of “Fourths”, people who’ve extended their lives through a process developed on Mars, have birthed a child who they believe might be able to communicate with the intergalactic machine intelligence. The whole conceit of the series is that this extra human force has motives that we cannot fathom as their plans develop over millions of years. This just isn’t compelling enough for me to read on.
This is a story of discovery and redemption, driven by mysteries that span the personal through to the galactic, and navigated by the power of self-delusion.
It is also the second of a trilogy, and I recommend that you read "Spin" first, but "Axis" it is not the direct 'next chapter' with regards the players, so can be picked up standalone.
I am not going to go into much detail regarding the plot, because like many of Wilson's novels, it is detailed and delicate.
But if you have read Wilson's other work, you will recognize his style here. If not, understand that Wilson focuses on the personalities of his players, their foibles and their reactions to events large and small. Unlike many authors, he manages to flesh out even minor characters without straying into stereotypes or caricatures. The science behind many aspects of this future Human universe remain opaque to the players (and to us) but that is the galactic mystery that underpins this trilogy and triggers the narrative arcs.
There are aliens afoot, the enigmatic and non-communicative Hypotheticals. Their actions are a continual background noise of `why?' and they are as immune to our entreaties for answers as the wind is for reasons to blow. Still, "Axis" chips away at this mystery, step by step, as our protagonist, Lise Adams, searches for answers to the disappearance - abandonment? - of her father a decade ago. This is a quest for Lise and it consumes her being, her relationships and perhaps her very existence, as she dives headlong into the fanatical fantasy of one of the "Fourths", a clandestine cabal who have taken proscribed Martian pharmaceuticals that extend their lives.
What we don't get with Wilson's aliens are spaceships and warp drive and firefights and the petty politics of interspecies interactions.
The Hypotheticals are called that because they are assumed from events, conjectured from outcomes. Nobody has seen one that we know of, and those who may have communicated with them appear to die from the experience. Clearly they exist, but their motives and motivations are hints and shadows and supposition, not answers writ in the stars.
When the aliens do arrive, it as sulfurous grit or unstable analogs of biologicals such as flowers and trees, none of which provide the clear, unambiguous answers that the characters expect or are seeking and the circumstances of these abstruse revelations merely clouds the issues of the who, what and why of the Hypotheticals. And the effort to elicit even this response from what are essentially Gods, exposes human nature at it most self-serving, venal worst.
So, who might be interested in "Axis"? Clearly, if you've read Wilson before, you are a candidate. I feel "Axis" is as good as "Spin" but note that it is a different book in style and approach (as other reviewers have noted in detail). If you enjoy character-led science fiction where inscrutable aliens trigger visceral responses that are then explored in detail, "Axis" is worth reading.
After reading this book I am now certain that RC Wilson is my favorite writer of science fiction, and one of my favorite authors in any genre. What I love about Wilson is that he creates outrageously trippy situations that are experienced by ordinary people. The people he creates are interesting and believable. The trippy situations are backed up by enough science to make them feel plausible - but not enough to take away the wonder or make his novels read like textbooks. I have actually sighed with contentment after reading his books, and thought to myself, "this is the way science fiction is supposed to be."
Axis is no exception. I could not put it down, and it is as trippy a book as I have ever read. At times, it makes me think of Lem's Solaris, though I enjoyed Axis much more. At other times, it made me think of the more psychedelic covers of 1970s SF paperbacks - in a very good way. (and with that said, I so wish for different cover art on this book, but I can understand why that might have been avoided.) Or Dali paintings. Occasionally I got a whiff of Lovecraft.
But all of this written in clear, unpretentious language, with believable characters, and a story worthy of Stephen King. I loved this book and can't yet decide if I like it more than Spin or if they are in a dead heat for my favorite SF novel ever. (I have not yet read Vortex.)
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