Sunday, September 23, 2012
Celebrating 11 Years in our Community!
Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson has been a full-time professional writer since 1986 and has published 14 novels, numerous short stories, and several non-fiction pieces and book reviews. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction novels; including the Hugo Award (for the novel Spin), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for the novel The Chronoliths), the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novelette The Cartesian Theater), three Aurora Awards (for the novels Blind Lake and Darwinia, and the short work The Perseids), and the Philip K. Dick Award (for the novel Mysterium). Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America was a 2010 Hugo Award nominee in the Best Novel category.
Author Stephen King has called Wilson "probably the finest science-fiction author now writing".
Books
Vortex
Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals.” In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.
