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Originally Posted by HarryT
Two books completed in the last week:
"The Hollow" by Agatha Christie. Her 45th book, originally published in 1946. Poirot is invited to dinner by neighbours at his new country cottage. When he arrived, he find a man dead by the side of a swimming pool, and his wife holding the revolver that she has apparently just shot him with. But is it the open and shut case that it initially appears to be?
This is an absolutely excellent book, with a real "twist in the tail" that took me totally by surprise. One of Christie's best.
"Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson. Excellent hard SF novel that won the Hugo in 2006. One day, the stars disappear, and it is discovered that the Earth has been enclosed by an artificial membrane that slows down time for the planet: for every 1 second that passes on Earth, 3 years go by in the outside universe. Can the mystery be solved before the Earth is destroyed by the expanding sun as billions of years go by in the outside universe? Very, very good indeed, and there are two sequels that I've not yet read.
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I really enjoyed Spin as well when I read it several months ago. I didn't really like the sequels, though, but maybe it's just me.