robert charles wilson

Vast monuments start appearing around the globe celebrating military victories with dates in the future. How are they being created? Are they self-fulfilling prophecies? Can they be stopped? And should they? Wilson quickly sets up a very intriguing premise and then works it through with a good...

Humanity has now expanded through the ‘Arch’ into the world prepared for them by the Hypotheticals. And are now rapidly setting out to make as much of a mess of that world as they have already done the Earth. Only one character from the first book is still present this time around but only as a...

Alien tech on the level of so-advanced-it’s-magic envelops the Earth in some sort of a time warp in which time moves massively slower inside than outside. So much so that the death of the sun becomes a threat that will happen with the protagonists’ lifetimes. Allow that basic premise into your...

I read this story a couple of years back and am desperate to track it down. It starts with a ship sailing in the 19th century from the US to Europe. Half way across the atlantic strange lights are seen in the sky and all communication is lost. When the ship arrive as Queenstown (Cork) in Ireland...

I'm looking for a book I read in late 1992. I believe it had just come out and might have been the author's first novel. I purchased it at the Carnegie Mellon campus bookstore in Pittsburgh. The book was in English and was written by an American, male author. I believe the cover had some kind of...

Think I read in 90's or early 2000's, quite well known author. Probably American. Plot involves technology that enables earth bound scientists to survey another planet in quite detail. protaganists from earth are maybe anthroplogists, on the planet are several different life forms, one of...

Axis Robert Charles Wilson Tor, Sept 2007, $25.95, 304 pp. ISBN 9780765309396 The Hypotheticals, self-replicating machines and perhaps so much more put Earth in stasis for four billion year and when it emerged, an arch was built that connects Earth to the New World that can only be reached by...

Darwinia Robert Charles Wilson Orb (Tor), Sep 2007, $14.95 ISBN: 9780765319050 In 1912, war in Europe seems imminent when an alien realm Darwinia abruptly replaces Europe on planet earth. The United States is unconcerned with what has vanished; instead declares the cosmos event a Miracle and...

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Robert Charles Wilson Tor, Jun 9 2009, $25.95 ISBN: 9780765319715 It is 2172 and America is a radically different place since the oil was depleted. Transportation and communication are gone; people indenture their lives and that of their children...

A Bridge of Years Robert Charles Wilson Orb/Tor, Dec 6 2011, $16.99 ISBN: 9780765327420 Following a divorce and a desperate need to start over, alcoholic Tom Winter leaves Seattle to return home to Belltower where he buys a three decade old house not occupied for over ten years, but maintained...

I've just picked up a copy of The Chronoliths and it looks intriguing, it will be the first novel of Wilsons that I've read, although I've had my eye on the Spin series for a while now. Anyone else read his stuff? your thoughts would be much appreciated.:)

Please help me find a book I read about 7 years ago. It was a paperback science fiction- from what I remember of the story line: a "meteor" hits Europe around the beginning of the 20th century (around 1906 or so) and creates a prehistoric jungle all over the continent, except in the UK. A...