A brilliantly imagined literary debut of love, despair, and two people\u2019s search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of control.<\/b><\/p>\n
The acceleration of Earth\u2019s spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon hasn\u2019t 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\u2014you 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.<\/p>\n
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 planet\u2019s 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 Winnie\u2019s stories spiral closer together. They meet cynical executives toiling to forestall the crises they created and religious zealots for whom the apocalypse can\u2019t come soon enough, lobbyists and lovers all coping in their own ways, and Victor Bickle\u2014the self-aggrandizing TV scientist whose shameful secret will bind Tanner and Winnie\u2019s fates…if they can uncover it before the Earth spins so fast that even gravity might lose its grip.<\/p>\n
Three-hour days. Two-hour days…<\/p>\n
A propulsive exploration of capitalism, technology, and our place within a system that dwarfs us,\u00a0Circular Motion<\/i>\u00a0is one of the most ingenious debut novels of our time.<\/p>\n