303 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2007 by Tor.

OCLC Number:
83977491

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4 stars (19 reviews)

We are taken to the mysterious planet Equatoria, a world apparently engineered for humanity by the inscrutable machine intelligences known as the Hypotheticals. Turk Findley, a man with a criminal past, runs an aeronautical charter service on the newly settled planet. Lise Adams, who hires Turk, is a would-be journalist searching for her vanished father, a scientist obsessed with the Hypotheticals and their illegal life extension technology. Meanwhile, young Isaac, genetically manipulated by rogue scientists so that he may become a conduit between humanity and the AIs, is coming of age, and something enormous and unknown is assembling itself far underground.

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I have a fuller review up at my site; here I will say that I was not keen on Axis most of the way through, which disappointed me on account of how much I really liked Spin, its predecessor. You don't care about the characters in Axis the way you do in Spin until very late, but once you do, the book's promise is, I think, fulfilled. Appropriately one star less than Spin, but all said and done, a very worthy sequel.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Human-alien encounters
  • Life on other planets