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Axis
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765309396
ISBN: 0765309394
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Studio: Tor Books
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Editorial Review:
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 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - What happened?
What happened here? I was expecting AXIS to be at par with the first book, SPIN. I was anxious for this book, and even bought the hardcover version. However, after having read AXIS, I have to say it disappointed me a lot. SPIN succeeded in touching the hearts of readers and bringing the them to the world of the characters. AXIS simply propped up some stereotypical characters just to get the story along. You just can't seem to get involved with the characters. It was also repetitive at times - especially ... Read More
Rating:  - Meh
Meh,
That was my reaction after the conclusion of Axis. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't all that good either. The story builds along quite nicely with a sense of a very strange building mystery all throughout. The characters are typically well-developed, a Wilson handle. But when I got to the end, to the big reveal, to the conclusion that all the gravitas and consternation has brought us to, my reaction was - Meh.
And there is no excuse for that.
After the first novel, ... Read More
Rating: - A disappointing follow up to a Hugo Winning Novel
Axis is the second novel in a trilogy, the sequel to the Hugo award-winning novel Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson.
I loved the first novel in this series (although I thought at the time that it was a standalone), which sets one of Wilson's classic Big Ideas in motion and takes us through it with interesting characters. What if unknown aliens put a time bubble around the Earth, so as to slow its aging relative to the rest of the universe?
At the end of that novel, the shield ... Read More
Rating: - Good book but the ending left me fealing empty
Axis starts out as well written as Spin, and just like spin I could not put this book down once I opened it. But unlike Spin the ending left me feeling very empty. The ending seems very rushed. As many people have stated this must be the 2nd book in a trilogy, but I would almost recommend waiting until the 3rd book comes out before I read this one. That being said its still a good book, and its one where I really felt connected to the characters.
Rating: - 'Axis' Not As Good As Brilliam 'Spin'
Robert Charles Wilson's Axis (2007) is the sequel to 2005's Spin, (see MadProfessah's review) which was the winner of the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction novel, and one of my 2007 Chrismakwanzakkuh presents. It has recently been released in paperback.
For some reason it is quite difficult to blog about books soon after one has read them.
I have been meaning to put down my thoughts about this book for quite awhile. Unfortunately, my impressions are not as favorable towards ... Read More
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