Robert Charles Wilson

Spin

The Harvest

Dönüs

Judit Gálvölgyi

Pörgés

Pour cinq ans seulement, jusqu'en 1877, la cité de Futurity dresse ses immenses tours jumelles au-dessus des grandes plaines de l'Illinois. Depuis Futurity, des hommes du futur viennent visiter le XIXe siècle. Et, contre une fortune en métaux précieux, les autochtones peuvent dormir dans la tour n° I, véritable vitrine technologique d'un incompréhensible XIXe siècle. C'est dans cette cité, construite à partir d'un futur parallèle, que travaille, comme agent de sécurité, Jesse Cullum, un autochtone. Parce qu'il a sauvé le président Ulysse Grant d'une tentative d'assassinat, Jesse se voit proposer une promotion : assisté d'une femme du XXIe siècle, il va devoir mener l'enquête. Mais que va-t-il réellement découvrir ? Un complot pour tuer le président... ou les inavouables secrets de Futurity ? Après avoir imaginé le futur des réseaux sociaux dans Les Affinités (Denoël, 2016), Robert Charles Wilson revient avec ce roman de voyage dans le temps a priori plus classique, où les surprises s'enchaînent à un rythme vertigineux.

La Cité du futur

Raymond Keller volunteers to become an Eye, an unfeeling recorder, in order to forget, but he meets Teresa, a young artist who uses alien dreaming jewels in order to remember

Memory Wire

Bios

Völlig ahnungslos wird Turk Findley zehntausend Jahre in eine Zukunft geschickt, in der sich die Menschheit auf mehrere Planeten verteilt hat, die durch Tore verbunden sind. Nur die Erde selbst ist nicht mehr zugänglich, sie gilt als sterbender Planet. Turk wird von einer Gruppe Fanatiker aufgenommen, die mit seiner Hilfe eine Verbindung zur Erde herstellen wollen, um so eine alte Prophezeiung zu erfüllen. Doch zuvor muss Turk herausfinden, zu welchem Zweck er in die Zukunft geschickt wurde - und ob seine Reise schon beendet ist ? Robert Charles Wilson, geboren 1953, lebt in Toronto und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autoren der modernen Science Fiction. Er hat zwölf Romane veröffentlicht, darunter den Bestseller 'Die Chronolithen', der 2001 auf der New York Times Bestenliste stand. Neben zahlreichen Nominierungen wurde er mehrfach für seine Romane ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem 'Philip K. Dick Award' 1994, dem 'John W. Campbell Award' 2002 und dem 'Hugo Award' 2006.

Roman

Vortex

Axis

eine Geschichte aus dem Amerika des 22. Jahrhunderts ; Roman

Julian Comstock

ROMAN. DEUTSCHE ERSTAUSGABE

CHRONOLITHEN, DIE

Quarantäne

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 unique lens for understanding, examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general and Christianity in particular. Drawing on his personal experience, his work as a science fiction writer, and his deep knowledge of the classics of the genre, he makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism--an atheism drawn from everyday personal knowledge that doesn't depend on familiarity with the scholarly debate about theology and metaphysics, any more than a robust personal Christianity does. And as he reminds us, the secrets that remain hidden beyond the borders of the known universe--should we ever discover them--will probably not resemble anything currently found in our most prized philosophies, our most sacred texts, or our most imaginative science fiction.

A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God

Owning the Unknown

La vie de Scott Warden bascule le jour où il est témoin de l'apparition du premier Chronolithe à Chumphon, en Thaïlande. Ce monument hors du commun célèbre la victoire du seigneur de la guerre Kuin. Mais cette victoire n'aura lieu que dans vingt ans et trois mois. Qui peut bien être ce Kuin dont on ignore tout ? Et comment ce monument a-t-il pu venir quasi instantanément du futur ? Autant de questions auxquelles vont tenter de répondre Scott et son ancien professeur de physique, Sulamith Chopra, pendant qu'autour d'eux le monde semble s'écrouler, dans l'attente de l'avènement de Kuin. Un grand roman de science-fiction aux allures de thriller scientifique empreint, comme souvent chez Robert Charles Wilson, d'humanisme et de mélancolie.

Les Chronolithes

He was designed to be the perfect man. And at first the experiment seemed a success. John Shaw - the product of secret government research into enhanced intelligence - was from birth far beyond anything human. Brilliant and charismatic, John could have been anything he wanted - except that which he longed for more than anything. To be normal. So John created Benjamin: an alternative persona, a way of coping with people who hated what they could not understand. He was everything that John wasn't - but now those very differences are killing him. Benjamin has become the dominant personality, more and more often in control. John's altered body has left his mind at risk - and unless he can discover the truth that will fuse both parts together, both he and Benjamin will die. Robert Charles Wilson spins one of his most stirring, tightly woven tales with The Divide. Reminiscent of Flowers for Algernon, it is at once an adventure story and a sensitive look at the consequences of man's actions - and of one man's quite literal search for himself.

The Divide

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.

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 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.

Gypsies

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.

A Hidden Place

It is the 22nd century. Interstellar travel is possible, but colossally expensive, so humankind's efforts are focused on the only nearby Earth-like world. Isis is rich with plant and animal life, but every molecule of it is spectacularly toxic to humans. The whole planet is a permanent Hot Zone. Zoe Fisher was born to explore Isis. Literally. She has been cloned and genetically engineered to face its terrors. But there are secrets implanted within her that not even she suspects - and the planet itself contains revelations that will change our understanding of life in the universe.

Robert Charles Wilson

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