Vortex (Wilson novel)

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Vortex
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Author Robert Charles Wilson
Country United States
Language English
Series Spin
Genre Science fiction novel
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date
July 2011
Pages 331 (first edition, hardback)
ISBN 978-0-7653-2342-2
Preceded by Axis

Vortex is a science fiction novel by author Robert Charles Wilson, published in July 2011.[1] It is the third book in the Spin series, following the Hugo award-winning Spin and Axis.

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:

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"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."[2]

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