{4.5\/5} “You get off the boat for the first time and you realize you’re literally on another planet — the air smells different, the water tastes different, the moon’s the wrong size and it rises too fast… After a few weeks or months people get disoriented on some deep level. So they turn around and go home. Or else it snaps into place and it starts to feel normal.”<\/p>\n
Axis<\/strong> by Robert Charles Wilson, published in 2007<\/p>\n Isaac is an unusual 12-year-old boy — he can point towards west after spinning around. He soon finds out that he’s an experiment — whose goal is to communicate with the Hypotheticals. Meanwhile, Lise Adams is trying to find out what happened to her father, who disappeared a decade ago. She suspects he may have taken the illegal Martian treatment and become a Fourth.<\/p>\n This book is a sequel to Spin<\/strong>. It takes place some years later, but one character from the first book is still around — Diane. It’s not as mind blowing as Spin<\/strong>, but the characters will take you through to the end. It’s about trying to figure out what’s going on in a universe that is much different from ours, and trying to live on a planet that is somewhat different from ours.<\/p>\n