Robert Charles Wilson
1) Spin
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Series
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English
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From the author of Axis and Vortex, the first Hugo Award-winning novel in the environmental apocalyptic Spin Trilogy...
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 Blackout.
2) The harvest
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993 [i.e. 1992]
Language
English
Description
The Travelers, aliens orbiting the Earth, have offered humanity the chance to live forever, but is it such a good deal?
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.
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 False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains...
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Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another -- in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever." --
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
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 collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed...
6) Darwinia
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A 1920s expedition to explore former Europe, which disappeared a few years earlier, replaced by primitive jungle, dangerous inhabitants and exotic animals. The hero is a photographer.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
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.
His journey back to the early 1960s seems to offer him the chance to start over in a simpler, safer world. But, he finds that the tunnel holds a danger...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time.
Beginning with "The Perseids," this collection showcases Wilson's suppleness and strength: bravura ideas, scientific rigor, and living, breathing human beings facing choices that matter.
9) Vortex
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Series
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Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.
10) Burning paradise
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Publisher
Tor Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
"Cassie Iverson, eighteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2014--but it's not our United States and it's not our 2014. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades--back to the dawn of radio communications--human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and...
11) Last year
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Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
13) Blind Lake
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Working with an unfamiliar technology at a federal research installation, Marguerite, alongside the man she recently divorced, studies a distant alien race and deals with a military cordon that has cut off all communication.
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Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In an altered America where machines no longer work and magic holds sway, former lawyer-turned-visionary leader Cal Griffin guides his small band on a quest toward the Source of the Change -- following a trail he hopes will reunite him with his abducted sister, Christina, transformed into one of the powerful, enigmatic beings called "flares." Armed with little more than compassion and a determination to heal the world, Cal, the warrior Colleen Brooks,...