Spin is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was published in 2005 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. It is the first book in the Spin trilogy, with Axis (the second) published in 2007 and Vortex published in July 2011. In January 2015, Syfy announced it was developing a six-hour miniseries based on the book. Plot The story opens when Tyler Dupree is twelve years old. Tyler and his mother live in a guest house on the property of aerospace millionaire E.D. Lawton and his alcoholic wife, Carol. Tyler is friends with the couple's thirteen-year-old twins: Jason, a brilliant student who is being groomed to take over the family business, and Diane, with whom Tyler is in love. One night while stargazing, the three children witness all the stars simultaneously disappear. Telecommunications suffer as every satellite falls out of orbit simultaneously. Attempts to communicate with the ISS are unsuccessful. An opaque black "spin membrane" has been placed around Earth. The membrane has slowed time so that approximately 3.17 years pass outside the membrane for every second within, or 100 million years on the outside for every year within. The membrane is permeable to spacecraft, and it protects Earth from the harmful effects of concentrated stellar radiation and cometary impact. A simulated sun on the inside of the membrane allows for a largely normal life cycle to continue. However, the passage of time outside the membrane means that all life on earth will end in a few decades when the sun's expansion makes that region of the solar system uninhabitable. Jason becomes obsessed with gaining knowledge about the membrane and how to deactivate it. He studies science and eventually rises to run the day-to-day operations of Perihelion, an aerospace research firm that gets folded into the government and coordinates efforts to deal with the Spin. Diane joins the quasi-religious "New Kingdom" movement, a Christian sect that endorses hedonism and indulgence. She marries a man named Simon, whom she meets through the NK movement. Tyler attends medical school and becomes a doctor. Jason hires Tyler as a staff physician. Perihelion terraforms Mars, a process that is finished in a few months of subjective Earth time. When the terraforming is complete, Perihelion and its counterparts in other nations launch crewed colonization missions. Two years after the terraforming process begins, Earth receives satellite images confirming