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. What follows is a tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best novel in 1986
Raymond Keller est un Ange : tout ce qu’il voit est enregistr? dans une puce reli?e directement ? son cortex c?r?bral. Tenu ? l’objectivit?, il se veut une machine d?nu?e de sentiments. Sa nouvelle mission l’envoie au Br?sil, au c?ur de la for?t amazonienne, en compagnie de Teresa Rafael, une artiste d?s?uvr?e, et de Byron Ostler, un Ange qui a d?finitivement renonc? ? son c?blage. Ils doivent y r?cup?rer un onirolithe, une myst?rieuse pierre extraterrestre aux propri?t?s hors du commun. Mais cela ne sera pas sans danger, d’autant que cette plong?e au c?ur des t?n?bres sera aussi l’occasion d’explorer un territoire chaotique : la m?moire, les souvenirs perdus…D?s son deuxi?me roman, ?crit en pleine vague genre auquel on peut rattacher Robert Charles Wilson fait montre d’un talent annonciateur des grands romans ? venir.
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 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 attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed—as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.
In the 22nd century, interstellar travel is possible but expensive, so human efforts are concentrated on Isis, the only nearby Earth-like world. Isis is rich with life, but toxic, so people like Zoe are genetically engineered from before birth to explore the planet and face its terrors.
The novel deals with a government installation at Blind Lake, Minnesota, where scientists observe sentient life on a planet fifty-one light-years away, using telescopes powered by quantum computers that have advanced beyond human understanding. A sudden and unexplained facility lockdown extends into a long-term quarantine. Observation department head Marguerite Hauser tries to carry on with her work studying the alien life while taking care of her socially-challenged daughter Tess, warding off her ex-husband Ray, and deciding how she feels about houseguest and disgraced journalist Chris.Won Aurora Award for Best Long Form in 2004.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004.
In 1912, the entire European continent and all of the United Kingdom mysteriously vanished during the Miracle, replaced by an alien landscape known as Darwinia. Darwinia seems to be a slice of another Earth, one that diverged from our own millions of years ago and took a separate evolutionary path. As a 14-year-old boy, Guilford Law witnessed the Miracle as shimmering lights playing across the ocean sky. Now as a grown man, he is determined to travel to Darwinia and explore its mysteries. To that end he enlists as a photographer in the Finch expedition, which plans to steam up ...
Aus dem Nichts taucht in Thailand pl?tzlich ein siebzig Meter hoher Obelisk auf und richtet in weitem Umkreis durch eine Druckwelle und einen extremen Temperatursturz gro?e Verw?stungen an. Doch nicht Au?erirdische haben das Artefakt geschickt, sondern es kommt aus der Zukunft. Es besteht aus einem fremdartigen, unzerst?rbaren Stoft und tr?gt eine Inschrift, die den Sieg eines gewissen Kuin verk?ndet, der sich das Land unterworfen habe… Scott Warden. der als Aussteiger mit seiner Frau und seiner kleinen Tochter ein sorgloses Leben am Strand f?hrt, wird durch das Ereignis aus der Bahn geworfen: ...
First published in 1998 in (an anthology edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor Books, ISBN 0-312-86184-2).Included in Robert Charles Wilson's collection published in 2000 (Tor Books, ISBN 0-312-87374-3).Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1999.
Lisboa, 1944. Bajo el t?rrido calor veraniego, mientras las calles de la capital bullen de esp?as e informadores, el final de partida de la guerra del espionaje se libra en silencio. Los alemanes disponen de tecnolog?a y conocimientos at?micos. Los aliados est?n decididos a que los rumores de un «arma secreta» no lleguen a materializarse.Andrea Aspinall, matem?tica y esp?a, entra en este mundo sofisticado a trav?s de una acaudalada familia de Estoril. Karl Voss, agregado militar de la Legaci?n Alemana, ha llegado, reconcomido por su implicaci?n en el ...
Karen White can open “doors” between universes. This power, which she shares with her brother and sister, has been suppressed since childhood. But now it appears in her teenage son, Michael, who is approached by a mysterious figure known only as the Grey Man, a figure who has haunted Karen’s dreams for decades. Fleeing to her sister Laura’s reality, Karen and Michael have to undertake a terrifying and painful journey into the past—to discover the secret of their power and the truth about the Grey Man and his masters.
Un mattino di una torrida estate sivigliana i coniugi Vega vengono trovati morti nella loro casa di Santa Clara, la citt?-giardino costruita nei primi anni Cinquanta dagli americani nella citt? andalusa. Malgrado ogni indizio sembri indicare un patto suicida, l’ispettore Javier Falc?n ? tutt’altro che convinto. Dalle indagini sull’attivit? di Rafael Vega, un costruttore di successo, emergono ambigui legami con la mafia russa. E i primi interrogatori rivelano che la comunit? dell’esclusiva Santa Clara nasconde disperazione, fallimenti ed enigmi inconfessati. Fra i primi a parlare vi sono Marty Krugman, architetto americano che lavorava con ...
Apostat. Fugitif. Conqu?rant.Il s’appelle Julian Comstock ; il est le neveu du pr?sident des ?tats-Unis.Son p?re, le g?n?ral Bryce Comstock, a ?t? pendu pour trahison (on murmure qu’il ?tait innocent de ce crime).Julian est n? dans une Am?rique ? jamais priv?e de p?trole, une Am?rique ?tendue ? soixante ?tats, tenue de main de ma?tre par l’?glise du Dominion. Un pays en ruine, exsangue, en guerre au Labrador contre les forces mitteleurop?ennes. Un combat acharn? pour exploiter les ultimes ressources naturelles nord-am?ricaines.
In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again.Then out of Labrador come ...
From the Hugo-winning author of , an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the ...
? la mort de sa m?re, Travis Fisher est recueilli par sa tante, Liza Burack, ? Haute Montagne. Malgr? la Grande D?pression, la vie y est simple, rythm?e par le travail ? la fabrique de glace, les sermons ? l’?glise baptiste et les sorties avec Nancy Wilcox. Travis en viendrait presque ? oublier son statut d’inadapt?. Mais il y a la myst?rieuse Anna Blaise, elle aussi h?berg?e par les Burack. Qui est-elle vraiment ? Quel secret cache-t-elle dans sa chambre syst?matiquement close ?Premier roman de Robert Charles Wilson, contient d?j? en germe les ingr?dients qui feront le succ?s de l’auteur, notamment avec : une ?criture intimiste au service de personnages attachants confront?s ? une r?alit? qui leur ?chappe.
Una oscura noche de septiembre, Vasili Lukyanov, un mafioso ruso que se dirige a Jerez de la Frontera, muere en un aparatoso accidente de tr?fico. El inspector Javier Falc?n se persona en el lugar del siniestro: adem?s de la terrible visi?n del cad?ver ensartado en una barra de hierro, encuentra en el portaequipajes del coche una maleta que contiene casi ocho millones de euros en billetes usados, champ?n Krug y vodka helado. A Falc?n no le ser? dif?cil seguir el rastro del muerto hasta la mafia rusa que opera en la ...
Scott Warden ?tait l? ? Chumphon, Tha?lande, quand le premier chronolithe est apparu : un ob?lisque de plus de cent m?tres de haut, d’un bleu impossible, gelant un paysage de jungle d?vast? ; un monument comm?morant une victoire, celle du seigneur de la guerre Kuin, victoire qui n’aura lieu que dans vingt ans et trois mois. Mais qui est Kuin ? Un tyran, le sauveur d’une humanit? ? la d?rive, un extraterrestre aux traits indubitablement asiatiques, un futur dirigeant chinois, une rumeur qui, gr?ce ? la turbulence Tau, deviendra r?alit? ? Et que sont r?...
Una terrible explosi?n en un edificio de Sevilla ha causado la muerte de varios ciudadanos. Cuando se descubre que los bajos de la edificaci?n alojaban una mezquita, los temores que apuntan a un atentado terrorista se imponen. El miedo se apodera de la ciudad: bares y restaurantes se vac?an, se multiplican las falsas alarmas y las evacuaciones.Sometido a la presi?n tanto de los medios En Escocia en pleno siglo XIV, el clan de los Fitzhugh asesina a toda la familia de Morganna Kil Creggar, la protagonista de esta novela pasional, humor?stica y ...
Scott Warden es un hombre perseguido por el pasado… y pronto tambi?n por el futuro. En la Tailandia de comienzos del siglo XXI es un vago en una comunidad costera de expatriados, cuando es testigo de un acontecimiento imposible: la aparici?n en el boscoso interior de un pilar de piedra de casi setenta metros. Su llegada colapsa los ?rboles en un cuarto de kil?metro alrededor de su base. Parece estar compuesto de una ex?tica forma de materia y la inscripci?n tallada muestra la conmemoraci?n de una victoria militar… que tendr? lugar dentro de ...
Ossessioni. Ricordi rimossi, un'angoscia crescente, poi, all'improvviso, una scintilla che scatena un terrore sepolto in un angolo oscuro dell'anima. Ra?l Jim?nez, personaggio ambiguo legato al bel mondo di Siviglia, ma anche alla malavita e ai ricordi delle atrocit? della Guerra civile, muore all'inizio della Semana Santa, il momento dell'anno pi? denso di religiosit? e passione in una Spagna tutt'altro che solare, anzi, enigmatica e inquieta. L'ispettore capo Javier Falc?n capisce ben presto di trovarsi di fronte a un crimine rituale, quasi iniziatico: l'assassino ha voluto impartire alla sua vittima una “lezione di vista”. Jim?nez ? stato legato e costretto a guardare una videocassetta, finch? il suo cuore non ha ceduto…
Per cercare una via di scampo a un tragico passato, Raymond Keller acconsente a diventare un Occhio, ovvero un volontario che accetta di farsi impiantare nel cervello un perfetto impianto di registrazione. In tal caso non potr? pi? guardare dove vorr?, ma solo dove ? necessario per vedere, registrare, documentare. E cos? dimentica il proprio passato, il presente, il futuro. Finch? incontra Teresa, la meravigliosa ragazza che ? anche una splendida artista. Una donna preda delle violente allucinazioni indotte dai gioielli sognanti seminati in epoche remote da una razza di extraterrestri, e che hanno propriet? ancora non completamente esplorate dalla razza umana. Occorre qualcuno che abbia rinunciato a s? per poter penetrare un segreto tra i meglio custoditi dell’universo.
To escape his past, Keller has become an Eye—an all-seeing, unfeeling human video recorder. But his detachment fails when he meets Teresa, and he becomes involved in murder, smuggling and worse.
In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up to a world strangely different from their own—a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something has gone terribly wrong, something that has to do with the mysterious government facility on the outskirts of town.Won Philip K. Dick Award for Best novel in 1994.
