Circular Motion

ISBN: 080216448X

Author: Foster, Alex

Condition: New

A brilliantly imagined literary debut of love, despair, and two peoples search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of controlThe acceleration of Earths spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon hasnt reached Tanner, a young man preoccupied with dreams of escaping his tiny Alaskan hometown. One night, desperate to make his mark on the world, he runs away. He lands an unlikely job at CWC, the operator of a network of massive aircraft that orbit the Earth at 30,000 feet, revolutionizing global transportation. Now goods and people can travel anywhere in little more than an hour-you can visit Paris for an evening or order sushi from Japan. But just as Tanner settles into his new life and begins to consider if his feelings for a male colleague might be more than platonic, CWC is shaken by a wave of social unrest and protest.That unrest sweeps up Winnie. A high school outcast in an era of street protests, wild parties, and online savagery, Winnie falls in with a group of teen activists who blame CWC for the planets acceleration. As days on Earth quicken to twenty-three hours, then twenty, the sun rising and setting ever faster, causing violent storms and political meltdowns, Tanner and Winnies stories spiral closer together. They meet cynical executives toiling to forestall the crises they created and religious zealots for whom the apocalypse cant come soon enough, lobbyists and lovers all coping in their own ways, and Victor Bickle-the self-aggrandizing TV scientist whose shameful secret will bind Tanner and Winnies fates . . . if they can uncover it before the Earth spins so fast that even gravity might lose its grip.Three-hour days. Two-hour days . . .A propulsive exploration of capitalism, technology, and our place within a system that dwarfs us, Circular Motion is one of the most ingenious debut novels of our time.