"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...

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 ...

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...

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.Now, in Axis, Spin's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"—the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world—and, predictably, fiercely explo...

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...

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...

When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson.Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Ph...

"The style is rich, lucid, and literate . . . Hideous creatures mass and threaten in an ending reminiscent of Stephen King . . . remarkable indeed." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)A Hugo Award FinalistIn 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 is an act...

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 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...

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: A Michigan town is transported into an alternate-world theocracy in this "intelligent, compelling work of fiction" ( Publishers Weekly).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 ...

An American Marine recounts his ordeal as a World War II POW forced by the Japanese to build the railway immortalized in The Bridge on the River Kwai.From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Ch...