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Robert Charles Wilson

    15 dicembre 1953

    Questo autore è un creatore di spicco della fantascienza, la cui carriera professionale è iniziata nel 1986. Le sue opere spesso approfondiscono temi complessi, esplorando i confini della conoscenza umana e della tecnologia. Attraverso narrazioni avvincenti e concetti ponderati, l'autore sfida i lettori a considerare il futuro e il nostro posto al suo interno. Il suo stile unico e la sua profonda intuizione nel genere della fantascienza lo rendono una voce distintiva nella letteratura contemporanea.

    Robert Charles Wilson
    Julian Comstock. A Story of 22nd-Century America
    The Chronoliths
    Blind Lake
    A Bridge of Years
    Spin
    Magic Time: Ghostlands
    • Magic Time: Ghostlands

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      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, Russian physician Doc Lysenko, and bipolar street wizard Herman "Goldie" Goldman encounter old foes and new friends in a landscape of unimaginable beauties and magnificent horrors -- forced to confront the frightful secrets of an emissary from a dread region and to trust in a brilliant triumvirate of grad students who could get things running again ... at a terrible cost—as the final moves in humankind's ultimate nightmare are played out in the depths of the Ghostlands.

      Magic Time: Ghostlands
    • Spin

      • 454pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      After witnessing the onset of an astronomical event that has caused the sun to go black and the stars and moon to disappear, Tyler, Jason, and Diane learn that the darkness has been caused by a time-altering, alien-created artificial barrier and that the sun will be extinguished in less than forty years. Reprint.

      Spin
    • A Bridge of Years

      • 333pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Tom Winter discovers that his secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest is a portal to a time tunnel guarded by a killer from the future

      A Bridge of Years
    • Blind Lake

      • 399pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster-like aliens upon a distant planet. They can't contact the aliens in any way or understand their language. All they can do is watch

      Blind Lake
    • 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 of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory--twenty years in the future.Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok-obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note? Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a final battle with the future. The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

      The Chronoliths
    • As the United States struggles back to prosperity in the 22nd century, the dashing Captain Commongold faces treachery and intrigue while being at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion for his beliefs in the doctrines of the Secular Ancients

      Julian Comstock. A Story of 22nd-Century America
    • Darwinia

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      In 1912 the world changes overnight. Europe and all its inhabitants disappear, replaced by a primeval continent which becomes known as Darwinia: a strange land in which evolution has followed a different path. To some this event is an act of divine retribution; to others it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving a USA now ruled by religious fundamentalists, young photographer Guilford Law joins an expedition to Darwinia, a mission of discovery which uncovers extraordinary revelations about the whole nature of the universe.

      Darwinia
    • 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 hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.

      A Hidden Place
    • Mysterium

      • 345pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      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"). At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

      Mysterium
    • The Harvest

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Offered immortality by the aliens circling the earth, most humans accept, and Dr. Matt Wheeler, one of the few who does not, is left to watch humankind transform itself into something less than human. Reprint.

      The Harvest