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THe earth is suddenly enclosed in a alien forcefield. It blocks out views of the stars, the sun and the moon. Time inside the "Spin membrane" slows on a millennial scale. No apparent change on the planet, but outside the "spin" 100,000 years go by for every earth day that passes. It lets the author (and thereby the characters) play with the universe on a god-like scale. Small events can make huge changes over geologic time frames, and are easy to watch when that means just a few days to the humans. But, the questions remain, who did this to the earth? Why? How will mankind respond?

This book is a hard sell, it's bleak and depressing and I wonder why I am still reading it. And it's long. I'm not overly fond of the storytelling style, at times we had 3 time-lines going, and the story itself is all about time. I particularly don't like that we are told in a future time-line chapter, the ultimate outcome of certain events. Then we must painfully slog through the next series of present day chapters just to see how they got to the end point. So there is no question of what will happen, but only, how did they end up there? The real question is, do I care? None of the characters are particularly endearing, in fact I don't really like anyone. So why am I still reading this?

Final verdict: The end is not worth the journey. Skip this one.