Spin

This was an amazing roller-coaster of a book: OK, it jumps all over the place, but eventually you get hold of the narrative, and - it is great! Reasonably ordinary people, dumped into a strange existence that is still oddly ordinary, with time racing past outside a bubble created by an unknowable alien presence... what's not to like??

Wilson's characterisations are great, his premises feasible if awe-inspiringly strange (he and Charles Stross should write a book together), and the book is LONG, which always pleases me because I read distressingly fast. I look forward to more of this universe!