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Spin (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than
ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and
perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the
human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as
theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed.
As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning
the Unknown, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic
world-building make it it a unique lens for understanding,
examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general
and Christianity in particular. Drawing on his personal experience,
his work as a science fiction writer, and his deep knowledge of the
classics of the genre, he makes the case for what he calls
intuitive atheism—an atheism drawn from everyday personal
knowledge that doesn’t depend on familiarity with the scholarly
debate about theology and metaphysics, any more than a robust
personal Christianity does. And as he reminds us, the secrets that
remain hidden beyond the borders of the known universe—should we
ever discover them—will probably not resemble anything currently
found in our most prized philosophies, our most sacred texts, or
our most imaginative science fiction.
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Chronoliths (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R403
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One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an
impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone
pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its
base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And
the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military
victory...sixteen years hence.
As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our
own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott
into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future.
In his first story collection, Robert Charles Wilson, one of the
most distinguished SF authors of his generation, weaves a tapestry
of tales set in and around the city of Toronto -- a haunted,
numinous Toronto of past, present, and future, buzzing with
strangeness.
Beginning with "The Perseids", winner of Canada's national SF
award, this collection showcases Wilson's suppleness and strength:
bravura ideas, scientific rigor, and living, breathing human beings
facing choices that matter. Among the other stories herein are the
acclaimed Hugo finalist "Divided by Infinity" and three stories
written especially for this collection.
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Axis (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R429
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Vortex (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R448
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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 far greater than anything he left behind:
a human killing machine escaped from a bleak and brutal future, who
will do anything to protect the secret passage that he thought was
his alone. To preserve his worlds, past and present, Tom Winter
must face the terrors of an unknown world to come.
From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of
"Spin," "A Bridge of Years" is a classic science fiction story of
time-travel and human transformation.
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Mysterium (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R450
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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 was literally cut
off from the rest of the world...and thrust into a new one Soon the
town is discovered by the bewildered leaders of this new world--at
which point, the people of Two Rivers realize that they've arrived
in a rigid theocracy. The authorities, known as the Bureau de la
Covenance Religieuse, have ordered Linneth Stone, a young
ethnologist, to analyze the arrivals and report her findings to the
Lieutenant in charge. What Linneth finds will challenge the
philosophical basis of her society and lead inexorably to a
struggle for power centering on the mysterious object that Two
Rivers' government scientists were studying when the town slipped
between worlds. In "Mysterium," Robert Charles Wilson "blends
science, religion, philosophy and alternate history into an
intelligent, compelling work of fiction" ("Publishers Weekly").
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Darwinia (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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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 religious
fundamentalists, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a
mission of discovery that will take him further than he can
possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's
destiny in the universe. Robert Charles Wilson has crafted a
brilliant science fiction novel--a view of an utterly different
20th century. "Darwinia "is a 1999 Hugo Award Nominee for Best
Novel.
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. What follows is a tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.
In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are
more and more able to sort themselves into affinity 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, and behavioural. To
join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life.
Young Adam Fisk takes the suite of tests to see if he qualifies for
any of the Affinities and finds that he's a match for Tau, one of
the largest. Joining Tau is utopian at first. Problems in all areas
of Adam's life begin to simply sort themselves out as he becomes
part of a worldwide network of people dedicated to helping one
another - to helping him. But there are other Affinities than Tau,
with differing skills, strengths, and views about what to do with
their newfound powers. As all twenty-two Affinities go global, they
rapidly chip away at the power of governments, of corporations, of
all the institutions of the old world. Then, with dreadful
inevitability, the Affinities begin to go to war with one another.
For Adam, and for the world, human life will never be the same.
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