Gilles Goullet Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Now, in Axis , Spin 's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"—the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world—and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria. Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed—as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.

After witnessing the onset of an astronomical event that has caused the sun to go black and the stars and moon to disappear, Tyler, Jason, and Diane learn that the darkness has been caused by a time-altering, alien-created artificial barrier and that the sun will be extinguished in less than forty years.

Professeur d'anthropologie dans une université de Chicago, Bill Tanner fait partie d'une équipe de recherche chargée par l'US Navy d'étudier l'endurance humaine, et plus précisément, de déterminer quelles prédispositions permettent à certaines personnes de se montrer plus fortes, plus intelligentes, plus efficaces, plus aptes à survivre que d'autres dans des situations critiques.Son collègue John Olson, cependant, pense que ces études ont un autre objet, tenu confidentiel. Il est persuadé qu'au sein même de leur groupe se cache un être doté de pouvoirs surhumains, un être nous ayant dépassés sur l'échelle de l'évolution ; un mutant qui attend son heure pour dominer le monde...

Gillian Bellaver is from one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the world. Robin Sandza's father, Peter, is one of the United States government's deadliest assassins. Gillian and Robin are from two different worlds. Outside they have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessors of a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie for the secrets of their awesome power, Peter Sandza, using all the ruthless skills of his trade, makes a final desperate effort to save them. But Peter himself is possessed--by a fate as implacable and as deadly as the powers of the children he is committed to protect.