{"id":52809,"date":"2026-05-10T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52809"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:38:11","slug":"spin-by-robert-charles-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/05\/10\/spin-by-robert-charles-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin by Robert Charles Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 17 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/6aa43874-9a83-484e-a1e0-d6135aef9a04\"><cite>Spin<\/cite><\/a> by Robert Charles Wilson (2006 Hugo Best Novel)<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: It seems I read this 13 years ago; oddly, I have no memory of that, though I rated it four stars back then. High-concept SF (the Earth is suddenly enclosed in a bubble where time passes at a drastically reduced rate as the rest of the universe goes on) that allows for exploration of how we (as a species and as individuals) cope with impending Armageddon, cosmic mysteries, and relationships with each other.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6071.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Spin\" title=\"IMG_6071.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17285,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/6aa43874-9a83-484e-a1e0-d6135aef9a04&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 17 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: High-concept SF that allows for exploration of how we cope with impending Armageddon, cosmic mysteries, and relationships with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[3313,7033],"class_list":["post-52809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-robert-charles-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52810,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52809\/revisions\/52810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}