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Robert Charles Wilson (1) (1953–)

Author of Spin

For other authors named Robert Charles Wilson, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Robert Charles Wilson

Spin (2005) 3,799 copies
The Chronoliths (2001) 1,176 copies
Axis (2007) 1,085 copies
Blind Lake (2003) 768 copies
Vortex (2012) 502 copies
Bios (1999) 488 copies
Mysterium (1994) 427 copies
A Bridge of Years (1991) 341 copies
The Harvest (1993) 312 copies
The Affinities (2015) 295 copies
Burning Paradise (2012) 248 copies
A Hidden Place (1986) 230 copies
Last Year (2016) 206 copies

Associated Works

Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Contributor — 273 copies
Year's Best SF 15 (2010) — Contributor — 195 copies
Other Earths (2009) — Contributor — 176 copies
Identity Theft and other stories (2008) — Introduction — 142 copies
Starlight 2 (1998) — Contributor — 137 copies
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (2007) — Contributor — 129 copies
Galactic Empires (2017) — Contributor — 113 copies
Futures from Nature (2007) — Contributor — 113 copies
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (2007) — Contributor — 107 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition (2010) — Contributor — 94 copies
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003) — Contributor — 85 copies
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (2002) — Contributor — 84 copies
Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction (1994) — Contributor — 82 copies
Futureshocks (2006) — Contributor — 80 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition (2013) — Contributor — 62 copies
Rip-Off! (2012) — Contributor — 62 copies
Mash Up (2012) — Contributor — 60 copies
Star Colonies (2000) — Contributor — 50 copies
Season of Wonder (2012) — Contributor — 39 copies
Tesseracts 4 (2002) — Contributor — 29 copies
Distant Early Warnings (2009) — Contributor — 27 copies
Best Short Novels 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 25 copies
A Cosmic Christmas 2 You (2013) — Contributor — 21 copies
Tesseracts 6 (1997) — Contributor — 14 copies
Wild Things Live There: The Best of Northern Frights (2001) — Contributor — 12 copies
Northern Frights 4 (1997) — Contributor — 11 copies
Northern Frights 3 (1995) — Contributor — 10 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 45 • February 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Northern Frights 5 (1999) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 (2010) — Editor — 3 copies

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The starting point of Robert Charles Wilson`s book is very simple. Huge war memorials appearing all around the Earth, usually causing a local catastrophe... and remembering victorious wars from the future. The book very convincingly shows the possible political and sociological consequences of the happenings.
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TheCrow2 | 31 other reviews | Nov 2, 2023 |

Just a great story, interesting plot, well developed characters and cool opening premise. Just :-)

It's more novel and less sci-fi than you might expect, but don't let that discourage you. Read it, it deserved the Hugo, and deserves to be read more than once.
 
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furicle | 155 other reviews | Aug 5, 2023 |
Fun, suspenseful, nerdy stuff! Very much a page-turner, as you try to figure out the central puzzle of the story.
 
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grahzny | 155 other reviews | Jul 17, 2023 |
This novel starts out with an uncanny event that transforms the world. One night in 1912, a giant circular patch of the Earth, roughly Europe and a bit of North Africa, goes silent. Arriving ships find that all the people and every trace of their works have vanished. The general topography of the land is the same, but its flora and fauna are nothing that have ever been seen in the planet's history - yet nonetheless betray an evolutionary history just as long as the one we know.

The history of the world proceeds differently. No 1914-1918 Great War, slower technological progress, the US the sole world superpower, and a revival of creationist explanations of the origin of Earth and life follow the apparent miracle. In 1920, Guilford Law and his wife and child travel to England, which is being resettled by the remains of the British Empire. He will join an American scientific expedition into the interior of the land now called Darwinia. But Guilford is haunted by dreams of another life, one that ended in a war that his history and his memory say never occurred. Other men around the world are likewise haunted, by dreams or, for certain men without conscience, by terrible phantoms they think of as gods - evil gods with real-world powers.

Wilson loves setting ordinary human relationships against a backdrop of cosmic scale, and Darwinia eventually becomes cosmic indeed - this 1998 release is a very 1990s SF novel. Not Wilson's best, but quite satisfying.
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