Helpful Score: 3
I found the premise for this book to be very interesting. Really, it's a mystery. One night, on a night very much like tonight, the stars go out. The moon is gone, too. The sky is just black. What happened? Why did it happen? And can it be undone? I can't say much more about the plot without giving away spoilers, but mostly this is the story of society's reaction to this event and in particular, one very intelligent man's quest to try to figure it out. I enjoyed the way the story was told by jumping back and forth between the present and the future until the two converged. I never knew what was coming next and I certainly never guessed how it would end. My biggest complaint about the novel is that I never understood why they called it the Spin. This book won the Hugo Award in 2006. It is the first of a planned trilogy, but this book could easily stand alone, leaving something to the imagination.
Helpful Score: 2
Wow! This Hugo-winner is a compelling read that kept me up nights -- I felt the need to order several more Robert Charles Wilson books, and that is the highest compliment I can pay. The prose strikes just the right note and I cared about the characters. You'll enjoy this book!
Helpful Score: 2
One of the most original and well-written books science fiction books I've ever read.
Helpful Score: 1
Not a big science fiction fan, especially when they get technical and over my head, and this book doesn't. I really enjoyed this story, could hardly put it down.
Helpful Score: 1
Read it if you like Science Fiction. It was slow getting started, but it is worth getting through the boring human emotion stuff, to get to the science fiction. This story had some very interesting ideas, but I felt like it didn't explore some things as much as it should have. I would really like him to write a sequal, because I think that there is a good story in what happened next.
