Vortex

This is a great book, as well-written as its predecessors, with flawed but real characters, some mundane and some enormous concepts, and a fitting end to a saga.

This volume is a logical follow-on from Axis, though not from an angle you might have expected. It also jumps backwards and forwards across 10 000 years, as two different sets of people tell their stories, until....

Until Wilson takes us on a journey that is staggeringly strange, hugely vast, and utterly fascinating - literally encompassing Life, The Universe and Everything. And the answer is not 42.