Spin

by Robert Charles Wilson · 2005

When ten‑year‑old Tyler Dupree watches the night sky suddenly go black, he and his friends Jason and Diane witness the "Big Blackout" that shrouds the Sun in a featureless, heat‑only disk and erases the Moon. The world is left with aging, crippled satellites and a looming cosmic mystery: an artificial barrier created by colossal alien artifacts. As the trio grows up, a space probe uncovers a terrifying truth—time outside the barrier races ahead, compressing a hundred million years into each Earth day, meaning the Sun’s death throes are only decades away. Jason becomes a brilliant scientist devoted to averting this slow apocalypse, while Diane spirals into hedonism and a cult born of fear, and humanity launches terraforming machines to green Mars as Earth races toward its end. Robert Charles Wilson weaves a sweeping, Hugo‑winning tale that blends mind‑bending astrophysics with intimate human drama, exploring how ordinary lives respond when the universe itself is turned inside out.