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. It would shape their ...

"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction . . . The Chronoliths stands with his best." — The New York TimesOne 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. An...

Want to find a way to stop someone in your life from gaslighting you without having to struggle a day longer?Time to stand up for yourself, show the world your true worth and be more than the difficult people ever thought you would be?You're someone who has so much in life to give, which is why it's such a puzzle that you think you're worth nothing right now. Well, actually, it's entirely understandable, given the pressure you're constantly...

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.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, wher...

From the "finest science fiction writer now writing," a sci-fi thriller about researchers cut off from the rest of the world while studying alien life (Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly ).Robert Charles Wilson "writes superior science fiction thrillers" ( The New York Times). Now Wilson tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human love in a mysterious but hopeful universe.At Blind Lake, a large feder...

From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award–winning author of Spin and "one hell of a storyteller," A Bridge of Years is a classic science fiction story of time-travel and human transformation (Stephen King).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 ...

The beauty of the country through which he travelled (it was the county Wicklow) could not prevent his mind from dwelling on many painful thoughts, some borrowed from the past, and more from the future. His uncle’s caprice and moroseness,—the strange reports concerning the cause of the secluded life he had led for many years,—his own dependent state,—fell like blows fast and heavy on his mind. He roused himself to repel them,—sat up in the mail, in which he was a solitary passenger,—looked...

The Hugo Award–winning author's first novel: "One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction." — The New York TimesIn 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 ta...

Want to be the one who breaks free from the constant overthinking that's come to dominate so many of our lives?Need to dive deeper, understand the causes, and then come out the other side stronger than you can ever imagine?Overthinking is when your brain just won't switch off: it feels like it's stuck going around and around on the same loop as a hamster stuck on a wheel. But while the hamster is having fun and getting fit, you're feeling l...

Bursting with ideas, replete with human insight, Bios is science fiction in the grand tradition: a novel of bravery, exploration, and discovery in a universe charged with awe.In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focussed on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isia...

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 uni...

The Hugo Award–winning author of Spin, praised as "a hell of a storyteller" by Stephen King, gives time travel his own mind-bending twist . . .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.In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past—but not our past, n...