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Vortex is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson, published in July 2011. [1] It is the third book in the Spin series, following the Hugo Award -winning Spin and Axis .
Vortex is a 1991 war novel by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin. Set during the final years of apartheid in South Africa, Vortex follows the assassination of a reformist National Party president and his cabinet by the African National Congress, as well as a subsequent seizure of power by far-right Afrikaners. The plot unfolds through a series of ...
The Vortex, a play by Noël Coward; The Vortex, a 1924 novel by Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera; Vortex (Cleary novel), a 1978 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary; Vortex (Bond and Larkin novel), a 1991 war novel by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin; Vortex (Wilson novel), a 2011 science fiction novel by Robert Charles Wilson, the sequel ...
Wilson's literary agent is Shawna McCarthy, and his most recent books (including Blind Lake, Spin, and Axis) have been edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books. Spin is the first book of a trilogy that continues in Axis and finishes with Vortex. Spin won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. [2]
The Vortex (Spanish: La Vorágine) is a novel written in 1924 by the Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera. [2] It is set in at least three different bioregions of Colombia during the rubber boom .
Since then, Bond's books have depicted military and political crises, emphasizing accuracy and fast-paced action. Red Phoenix, Vortex, and Cauldron were all New York Times bestsellers. Red Phoenix is set in South Korea and depicts an invasion of the south instigated by the North Korean government.
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. [1] It is the first book in the Spin trilogy, with Axis (the second) published in 2007 and Vortex published in July 2011.
In general, vortex lines (in particular, the axis line) are either closed loops or end at the boundary of the fluid. A whirlpool is an example of the latter, namely a vortex in a body of water whose axis ends at the free surface. A vortex tube whose vortex lines are all closed will be a closed torus-like surface.