Robert Wilson
1) Vortex
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Vortex" tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in "Axis," who is transported 10,000 years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals."
3) Last year
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"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. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
4) Spin
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 1
Publisher
T. Doherty associate Book
Pub. Date
cop. 2005.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life. It's like family, and more than family. Your fellow members aren't...
Author
Publisher
Orb
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"AIn twenty-first-century Asia, the appearance of huge stone pillars that emit ionizing radiation and bear inscriptions commemorating military victories from the future draws Scott Warden into the mystery of these bizarre monuments and a confrontation withthe future"-- Publisher.
7) Axis
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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 exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria. Lise Adams is a young woman...
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1984], ©1975
Language
English
Description
The office of a minor left-wing political magazine has been blown up. People are missing. The rest of the world is on the brink of nuclear annihilation. Are the events connected? Are the events what they seem? So begins the wild ride that is The Illuminatus Trilogy. Comprised of three stories: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan, the book unfolds with the history of time as its backdrop and the figures of history among its characters....
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