Spin - A first contact book that starts with a bang (and the stars going out)!
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson has a wonderfully big, bad sci-fi problem to overcome, powerful, inscrutable aliens, and a wonderful human story to tie it all together!
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer, Jonathan - Words in Time
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Show Notes
Tyler, Jason, and Diane are growing up together in the suburbs of Washington, DC. One night, as they are outside looking up at the sky, something shocking happens - all the stars go out at once. The 'Hypotheticals' have wrapped the earth in a spin membrane that isolates the Earth, making time move millions of times slower inside the barrier than outside. In Tyler, Diane, and Jason's lifetime the sun will turn into a red giant and consume the earth - unless they can figure out how to escape the Spin!
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Similar books we recommend:
- Contact - Carl Sagan (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/contact)
- Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
- Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/the-three-body-problem)