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Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
challenging
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Hard SciFi with a Tremendous Heart
I picked up this book after reading a short story by Wilson in the "Galactic Empires" anthology and greatly enjoying it. This book deserves its Hugo and every other award. It is the best of scifi - exploring themes about both the universe and what it means to be human; deep time and the passage of our single, brief human lives. It is hard scifi and yet affects the reader only because of the compelling characters it creates - something all too rare in science fiction.
I picked up this book after reading a short story by Wilson in the "Galactic Empires" anthology and greatly enjoying it. This book deserves its Hugo and every other award. It is the best of scifi - exploring themes about both the universe and what it means to be human; deep time and the passage of our single, brief human lives. It is hard scifi and yet affects the reader only because of the compelling characters it creates - something all too rare in science fiction.