St. Martins Press-3PL, 2011. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0765327422 (ISBN13: 9780765327420) Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge—a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is the present. At the other end—New York City, 1963....
Orb Books, 2002. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0765302616 (ISBN13: 9780765302618) In the hard years of the Depression, young Travis lives with his uncle and aunt. Upstairs lives the mysterious Anna. Anna says she's going to be "changing," and she needs Travis's help...for purposes she won't explain. Robert Charles Wilson's A Hidden Place is a science fiction tale of passion, terror, and...
Tor Science Fiction, 2000. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0812575741 (ISBN13: 9780812575743). In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focused on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is...
Tor Books, 2003. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0765302624 (ISBN13: 9780765302625). Robert Charles Wilson, says The New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." His Darwinia won Canada's Aurora Award; his most recent novel, The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Now he tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human love in a mysterious but...
Tor Books, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0765332612 (ISBN13: 9780765332615) Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it’s not our United States, and it’s not our 2015. Cassie’s world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere;...
Orb Books, 2007. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0765319055; ISBN13: 9780765319050. In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle was an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving an America now ruled by...
Spectra, 1989. — ISBN: 0553283049 (ISBN13: 9780553283044) Karen White can open "doors" between universes. This power, which she shares with her brother and sister, has been suppressed since childhood. But now it appears in her teenage son, Michael, who is approached by a mysterious figure known only as the Grey Man, a figure who has haunted Karen's dreams for decades. Fleeing...
PS Publishing, 2006. — 86 p. — ISBN: 1905834276 (ISBN13: 9781905834273) Julian is told from the perspective of teenager Adam Hazzard, who lives in the rural town of Williams Ford, in the state of Athabaska (today a region in Canada, but in the story, a part of the greater United States) in 2172, at a time when technology has regressed to 19th century levels. The story deals...
Tor Books, 2009. — 413 p. — ISBN: 0765319713 (ISBN13: 9780765319715) In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen...
Tor Books, 2016. — 351 p. — ISBN: 0765332639 (ISBN13: 9780765332639) From the author of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Spin, comes an SF tale that poses searching questions about tourism and colonization Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant....
Spectra Books, 1987. — 219 p. — ISBN: 0553268538 (ISBN13: 9780553268539) Raymond Keller became an Eye--a human video recorder--to forget his past. Teresa became addicted to extraterrestrial dreaming jewels because they made her remember. Together this unlikely pair become involved in an international smuggling plot that threatens to destroy them and their budding love for one...
Orb Books, 2010. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0765327414 (ISBN13: 9780765327413) In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the local residents observe strange lights coming from the laboratory. The next morning, they awake to find that their town...
St. Martins Press-3PL, 2001. — 226 p. — ISBN: 031287524X (ISBN13: 9780312875244) Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for...
Tor Science Fiction, 2006. — 464 p. — ISBN: 076534825X (ISBN13: 9780765348258) One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big...
Tor Books, 2007. — 303 p. — ISBN: 0765309394 (ISBN13: 9780765309396) Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to...
Tor Books, 2011. — 331 p. — ISBN: 0765323427 (ISBN13: 9780765323422) Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world,...
Tor Books, 2015. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0765332620 (ISBN13: 9780765332622) In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies: genetic, brain-mapping,...
Tor Books, 2001. — 308 p. — ISBN: 0312873840 (ISBN13: 9780312873844). Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival...
Broadway Books, 1989. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0385266553 (ISBN13: 9780385266550) Imagine losing your personality, feeling it slip and alter, steadily changing, until the person inhabiting your body is no longer recognizable as you. Imagine...and you will understand the feelings of John Shaw. 12,000 pr int.
Bantam Books, 1992. — 394 p. — ISBN: 0553091239 (ISBN13: 9780553091236). Do you want to live forever? the Travellers asked humanity, and only one in ten thousand said no. Their ship had been in orbit around the earth for a year, but their only communication came one night via an enigmatic dream of immortality. And the next day everything was changed. Most of the world prepared...
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