Vortex

Robert Charles Wilson

Jul 2011 · Spin Book 3 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.

Vortex is thrilling and complex science fiction novel from Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson.

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Ratings and reviews

The first book of the series really set up a very interesting and thought-provoking universe. The second book narrowed the scope and made it a more personal story. But the third book, well... it wasn't the best. It continued with some of the characters from the second book, but then added an alternate set of characters who were reading about those characters. And while they were important, they weren't really in the same vein as the first two books. (It'd be like reading a series of vampire books and finding the third in the series was about two ordinary people reading about a vampire series.) And that made half the book extremely dull. That said, the last chapter of the book did bring back the same wonder and thought-provoking storytelling that was found in the first.

It's rare an author leaves me feeling satisfied at the end of a powerful trilogy but Wilson has definitely accomplished this. A fantastic conclusion.

Talk about a way to wrap things up. Nicely done!

About the author

Born in California, ROBERT CHARLES WILSON grew up in Canada. He is the author of many acclaimed SF novels including Darwinia, Blind Lake, Julian Comstock, and the Hugo Award–winning Spin.