Spin: Volume 1

Robert Charles Wilson

juill. 2010 · Spin Livre 1 · Vendu par Tor Books

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From the author of Axis and Vortex, the first Hugo Award-winning novel in the environmental apocalyptic Spin Trilogy...

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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Notes et avis

Lorsqu'une sorte de voile entoure la terre, ne lui accordant plus qu'une source lumineuse pour remplacer le soleil, l'humanité s'inquiète. Et pourtant au fur et à mesure des découvertes sur cet étrange phénomène l'inquiétude va se transformer en panique car la planète n'en a probablement plus que pour quelques dizaines d'années à vivre. Nous allons donc voir les efforts immenses et les trésors d'imagination que vont développer les hommes pour d'abord comprendre puis essayer de trouver une parade à l'inéluctable. C'est à travers quelques personnages clés dans cette recherche que nous allons suivre cette course contre la montre. Car le narrateur, Tyler Dupree, est bien placé pour à la fois nous révéler les efforts des scientifiques et des politiciens, mais aussi pour nous aider à comprendre les affres de ceux qui restent dans l'ignorance. Une écriture claire, une trame passionnante, vraiment un excellent roman dont la lecture vous fera perdre toute notion du temps.

Quelques mots sur l'auteur

Born in California, Robert Charles Wilson lives in Toronto. Darwinia won Canada's Aurora Award, The Chronoliths won the John W. Campbell Award, and Blind Lake is a New York Times Notable Book. All three were Hugo finalists.