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Axis

Robert Charles Wilson (2007)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesSpin / Hypotheticals #2
Setting
CSM age13
Goodreads3.56

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Hero archetypes

OutlawPilot

Heroine archetypes

Journalist

Synopsis

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.

Tags

Science FictionHard SFFirst ContactPlanetary RomanceAlien Technology