"SPIN" by Robert Charles Wilson Hugo Award Winning Science Fiction book review and ranking.

Tonight I review Robert Charles Wilson's 2006 Hugo award winning novel "Spin". (458 pages). I provide a spoiler free plot overview, discuss my likes, my dislikes, make some recommendations and I rank it on our ever growing Sci-Fi shed ladder where I have been reading and ranking all the Hugo and/or Nebula award winning novels. 00:00 Intro 00:30 Plot overview 04:58 What I Liked 07:28 What I didn't like 08:47 Memory Test 09:40 Recommendations and Similar Novels 11:15 Ranking 15:45 Your Feedback and Goodreads rating Over the last year I have reread over 60 Hugo and/or Nebula award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I have been ranking them on the ever growing SF Shed Ladder. I use the following criteria to help me rank these wonderful novels. 1. Concept (how interesting/unique is the SF or F concept) 2. Execution of the concept 3. Characters (interesting character arcs, relatable, interesting) 4. Writing (how much did i enjoy the writing) 5. How memorable are these novels (the memory test) 6. Plot (interesting twists and turns) 7. Ending (does the ending satisfy) Playlist of all the Hugo Winning Novels    • Hugo Winners   Playlist of all the Nebula Winning Novels    • Nebula Winners   The Shed Ladder Rankings 1 Hyperion - Dan Simmons 2 Dune - Frank Herbert 3 Gateway Frederik Pohl 4 A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr 5 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card 6 Way Station - Clifford Symak 7 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke 8 Doomsday Book - Connie WIllis 9 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer 10 A Case of Conscience - James Blish 11 Tehanu - Ursula LeGuine 12 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman 13 The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuine 14 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuine 15 This Immortal - Roger Zelazny 16 The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke 17 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein 18 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein 19 Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein 20 Ringworld - Larry Niven 21 The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe 22 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K, Dick 23 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester 24 Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold 25 Red Mars - Kin Stanley Robinson 26 The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu 27 Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny 28 Moving Mars - Greg Bear 29 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge 30 The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi 31 Redshirts - John Scalzi 32 Flowers for Algenon - Daniel Keyes 33 Rite of Passage - Alexei Panshin 34 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 35 Among Others - Jo Walton 36 The Uplift War - David Brin 37 A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge 38 Startide Rising - David Brin 39 The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera 40 The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov 41 The City and the City - China Mieville 42 Man Plus - Frederik Pohl 43 Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney 44 Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang - Kate Wilhelm 45 Double Star - Robert Heinlein 46 A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine 47 Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie 48 A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberh 49 Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner 50 Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher 51 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman 52 The Terminal Experiment - Robert J Sawyer 53 The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro 54 The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R. Delaney 55 The Big Time - Fritz Leiber 56 Timescape - Gregory Benford 57 No Enemy But Time - Michael Bishop 58 The Falling Woman - Pat Murphy 59 Slow River - Nicola Griffith 60 The Obelisk Gate - N.K Jemisin 61 The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin 62 The Stone Sky - N.K Jemisin