Axis

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

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, Axis, 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.

©2007 Robert Charles Wilson (P)2008 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“The long-anticipated marriage between the hard sf novel and the literary novel, resulting in an offspring possessing the robust ideational vigor of the former with the graceful narrative subtleties of the latter, might finally have occurred in the form of Robert Charles Wilson's Spin.…Wilson does so many fine things, it's hard to know where to begin to praise him.” —The Washington Post

Okay, not a good a Spin

This book was okay, but compared to Spin is had a lot to be desired. I hope Vortex is better.

Great story. Would like less pauses between parts

I don't like the long pauses between parts. It makes me think I have dropped my blue tooth connection. The story line is too complex to listen to at 1.5 which is how I usually listen to fiction.

very good

Based on reasonable scientific thought, with interesting characters and timely plot twist. There was a good ending to the book.

Not as good as book 1

This had a very different feel then book 1 but still enjoyable. Scott Brick was fantastic as always!

Terribly dull.

I enjoyed the first book very much but I had to give up on this one after a few hours. I kept hoping it would get interesting but alas...

meh

interesting concept but not discriptive enough for my taste. a book needs either a story line that keeps you entertained. or a sci fi concept that is well defined discriptivly. this had niether.

Disappointing

After listening to the first book in the series I was intrigued by the story and the world building. . While the narrator was excellent, the writing was lacking. This book bounces from one characters point of view to the other while keeping the same style of inner thinking through them all. Each different person uses the same vocabulary and might as well be the same character looking at events from a different location.
Overall, the snooks world building doesn’t move much and I never once began to care about any of the characters.

Couldn’t Finish

The concept is great but the execution was excruciating. I rarely put down a book in the last hour but this one was so dry I just couldn’t make it through.

The author includes absolutely no humor. It was like reading a romance novel with no sex.

First book good, second book bad

It was a huge waste of time. Soooo slow, they just drag out some boring concepts that you likely thought about in the first book. Wish I could have my time back.

This Book Needs A Review

When Scott Brick starts to sound like Charlie Brown's teacher, it's time to quit. Book just did not hit me like the first and the series won't get the chance to do #3.