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Vortex

af Robert Charles Wilson

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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.
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“Vortex” is book three of Robert Charles Wilson’s “Spin” trilogy. Book one, titled “Spin,” won the Hugo for Best Novel in 2006. It was an epic tale filled with huge sci-fi ideas mixed with large dollops of human drama. Book two was named “Axis,” and carried on the large mysteries laid out in book one.

The beginning of “Vortex” is sizzling, hooking me quickly. Two storylines are intertwined. We follow a character named Turk from book two, who has been thrust ten thousand years into the future. Turk encounters human descendants in a futuristic mobile city named “Vox.” Meanwhile, back on near modern-day Earth, somehow a man named Orrin is writing the account of Turk in the distant future. Once the excitement of these two unlikely scenarios wears off and we settle into the story, the trilogy slows down again. Wilson delays the reveal of these mysteries until the final ten percent of the book. Of course, there is drama throughout, shadowy figures are attempting to falsely incarcerate Orrin, and Vox is not the paradise it originally appears to be. However, there is far too much explaining and frankly the characters and action weren't interesting enough to pull me through to the conclusion.

The ending is better and attempts to spin the trilogy off its axis and into a vortex of transcendence resolutions (see what I did there). It’s ambitious and grandiose, but in my opinion, falls short in living up to the expectations set in the excellent book “Spin." Three stars for this conclusion of the mind-stretching sci-soap-opera trilogy. ( )
  Kevin_A_Kuhn | May 10, 2023 |
This third volume in the Spin Trilogy features Turk Findlay of the second volume. The story takes place over two widely separated time lines. In one of the narratives, it is 10,000 years in the future after the events in Axis, the second volume. Turk, who had been transported by the Hypotheticals, is returned to Earth/Equatoria. He is picked up by the Vox, a civilization living on a group of wandering islands who believe that those who are returned from the Hypotheticals are deities or messiahs of a sort. The Vox are maneuvering their islands to a place they think the Hypotheticals are waiting for them. On meeting up with the Hypotheticals, they expect to experience something akin to the Rapture. Turk is not too sure the Hypotheticals are benevolent, however.

In the alternating storyline, set in a time somewhat contemporaneous with the time Turk was taken up by the Hypotheticals. Orrin Mather, a young vagrant is taken into custody by the authorities in a future dystopian Houston. Orrin keeps dreaming the story of a man named Turk, and he keeps writing the story down. We read Turk's story, as Orrin dreams it and writes it down.

I liked this novel the least of the three in the trilogy. I ended up not reading it that closely, just reading to get through it and see what happened and how it all ended. ( )
  arubabookwoman | Dec 11, 2022 |
After the strong opening in Spin and the someone meh followup with Axis, I wasn't expecting particularly much from Vortex. Consider me pleasantly surprised.

Getting back to the huge events and big timespans of Spin, Vortex takes place ten thousand years after Axis, after the Temporal Arch discovered towards the end of that book ends its next cycle. Two of Axis' main characters (Turn and Isaac) are dumped out / recreated and picked up by a island sized ship that has been floating through arch after arch through the Eight Worlds (apparently the arches connecting Earth to Equatoria connect through several other worlds and finally end at Mars, which is a neat concept).

The far future society is interesting, as is the ruined Earth (global warming is bad). In the far future, societies seem to resolve around linked communities, either linking the thoughts of emotions of a community. The island they end up on is one of the latter, which has both its strengths but also a fair number of complexities, both of which I thought Vortex did an interesting job of exploring.

On the other hand, there is actually a second story line interwoven into Vortex, revealing the ten thousand year future as a story written by a possible mental health patient. Honestly, I'm not sure why this storyline is here; I thought those parts weren't nearly as interesting (we've already seen that part of the timeline after the Spin) and could have been left out. They did set up an interesting possibility for the very conclusion, but that could have done without as well.

We also do learn more about the Hypotheticals (not so hypothetical any more...), which remains a neat concept, even if one that doesn't always make terribly much sense (how do they communicate?).

Overall, my previous point from Axis remains: If you read Axis, read all three. Vortex is a solid conclusion and an interesting book on its own merits. If you're more pressed for time, you can read only Spin and be well off. ( )
  jpv0 | Jul 21, 2021 |
The last of the series that began with Spin and continued with Axis. It was short, like Axis. I was expecting something deeper, longer.

I liked having Turk Findley reappear. I thought he might reappear, but I wasn't sure. There were some unfinished issues with his life in Axis.

I enjoyed going back and forth between the present in Houston (the present as it is in this book) and the future on Vox. I liked the story of Vox Core better. I became interested in Vox and it's history and I wanted a lot more. The story that took place on "modern-day" Earth wasn't as dramatic as it could have been; I expected a lot more chases and running and hiding like in the first two books.

I felt like the story of the Farmers on Vox was terribly unfinished. They could have used their own book. It was far too simplified in my opinion.

So, overall, I felt like it was a good story that needed fleshed out and expanded. I did like the discussion about the Hypotheticals, though. ( )
  Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |
The third book of the Spin trilogy is a kind of a time-loop story. On the surface it`s an action packed page turner but in the middle of it there are some serious thoughts about
consequences, about human mind and collective decisions. ( )
  TheCrow2 | Aug 18, 2020 |
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While this doesn't pack the punch of Spin, which deservedly won the Hugo back in 2006, all in all it's a satisfying conclusion to the series. Given how often this sort of grandly cosmic series goes completely off the rails at the end, that's no small achievement. It's well worth reading if you've already read the other two. And if you haven't read the other two, do yourself a favor and go get Spin at once.
 

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