7.4 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Series Spin ISBN 978-0-7653-2342-2 Preceded by Axis | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date July 2011 Originally published July 2011 Publisher Tor Books Genres Novel, Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 331 (first edition, hardback) Page count 331 (first edition, hardback) Similar Robert Charles Wilson books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vortex is a science fiction novel by author Robert Charles Wilson, published in July 2011. It is the third book in the Spin series, following the Hugo award-winning Spin and Axis.
Contents
Timeline
The chapters of the book alternate between two timelines: one approximately 40 years following the events of Spin and the other approximately 10,000 years following the events of Axis.
Critical response
Reviewer David Mead writes that readers will be very pleased with the final adventure:
"Wilson provides a hopeful conclusion to a narrative that foresees the death of all life on Earth, first as a result of global climate change and then of the destructive expansion of the dying sun when the Hypotheticals remove the barrier that has protected the planet. In each of the novels of the trilogy, the wondrous events that precipitate the story - the imposition of the barrier, the Archways, the experience of life aboard a gigantic floating archipelago that sails from Equatoria to a ruined Earth - are registered or reported by finely drawn characters."