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| Spin - Robert Charles Wilson |
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree
stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into
brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier.
He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as
the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun
is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object.
The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial
satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as
though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler,
Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is
artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside
the barrier than inside--more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At
this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our
future. Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working
against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism,
marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of
the masses.Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time
do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately
get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the
settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has
appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating
machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun--and
report back on what they find. Life on Earth is about to get much, much
stranger.
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