Robert Charles Wilson Livres

La Terre a été coupée du reste de l’univers par une mystérieuse barrière opaque à l’extérieur de laquelle le temps s’écoule des millions de fois plus vite. Il reste donc peu de temps avant que le Soleil ne transforme la planète en une boule de feu, exterminant ainsi l'humanité. Pourquoi et par qui la barrière a-t-elle été créée ?

La vie de Tyler Dupree est inextricablement liée à celle des jumeaux Lawton, Diane et Jason. Ils étaient ensemble la nuit où la Terre a été coupée du reste de l’univers par une mystérieuse barrière opaque à l’extérieur de laquelle le temps s’écoule des millions de fois plus vite. Il ne reste donc plus que quelques décennies avant que le Soleil ne transforme la Terre en une boule de feu, exterminant ainsi l’humanité. Jason n’a alors plus qu’un but dans la vie : comprendre pourquoi et par qui la barrière a été installée. Roman de science-fiction vertigineux, Spin gagne le pari de nous transporter dans un futur lointain qui reste familier. Une réussite couronnée aux États-Unis par la plus haute distinction de la science-fiction, le prix Hugo, et en France par le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

Menacée par un Soleil qui se transformera bientôt en nova, la Terre vit ses dernières années. Pour la plupart, les hommes ont franchi l'arc des Hypothétiques et se sont installés sur le Nouveau Monde, Equatoria, notamment dans sa capitale, Port Magellan. C'est à partir de cette agglomération tentaculaire, hétérogène telle l'humanité, que Lise Adams cherche son père, un scientifique qui a disparu depuis bien longtemps et avait peut-être découvert quelque chose sur l'énigme que représentent les Hypothétiques. Alors que Lise tient enfin une piste sérieuse, grâce à son ancien amant Turk Findley, d'étranges cendres se mettent à tomber sur le Nouveau Monde. Et si celui-ci, tout comme la Terre, était condamné à brève échéance ?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.