Series
Spin / Hypotheticals
Robert Charles Wilson · 3 novels · 2005–2011
One night, the stars vanish behind an opaque membrane that has sealed off the Earth, and inside it time runs so much slower than the universe outside that billions of years pass beyond the barrier for every year lived on the ground. Robert Charles Wilson's Spin follows three friends who grow up in the shadow of this event, as humanity scrambles to understand and survive it through desperate projects like terraforming Mars, while trying to make contact with the ancient machine intelligences responsible, the Hypotheticals. The trilogy continues in Axis and Vortex, widening the mystery across generations.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Spin / Hypotheticals at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s2
- 2010s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and calm: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.