Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: axis
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765348268
ISBN-13: 9780765348265

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 att

Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: america, century, story, comstock, julian
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2010-05-25
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0765359235
ISBN-13: 9780765359230

From the Hugo-winning author of Spin, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change AmericaIn 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 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. 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 o

Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: lake, blind
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2004-07-11
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765341603
ISBN-13: 9780765341600

Robert Charles Wilson, says The New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." His Darwinia won Canada’s Aurora Award; his most recent novel, The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Now he tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human love in a mysterious but hopeful universe.At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster like aliens upon a distant planet. They can’t contact the aliens in any way or understa

Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: america, century, story, comstock, julian
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0765319713
ISBN-13: 9780765319715

From the Hugo-winning author of Spin, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change AmericaIn 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 Du

Authors:Robert Wilson, Stanley Marcus, Robert A. Wilson, Dori
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: presidency, power
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1999-12
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1891620436
ISBN-13: 9781891620430

This sterling collection of original, never-before-published essays on six fascinating contemporary presidents by some of the leading presidential biographers of our time is must reading for anyone interested in American politics, the history of the American presidency, or the lives of the presidents. Each essay—extending and elaborating on lectures originally delivered as part of the Montgomery Lecture Series at Dartmouth University—explores how a particular president came to power, wielded power, and was changed by power, and how each presidency affected the power of the office itself. T

Author: Charles E. Wilson Jr.
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: literature, issues, social, exploring, race, racism
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-04-30
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 031332820X
ISBN-13: 9780313328206

Issues of race and racism permeate American society and are of central concern to students and teachers. The chapters in this reference explore how these issues have been addressed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Native Son, The House on Mango Street, Ceremony, and other major novels widely read by high school students. The works discussed reflect racial issues from a range of cultural perspectives. Each chapter is devoted to a particular novel and provides a plot summary, an overview of the work’s historical background, a literary analysis, and suggestions for further reading.Iss

Author: Charles Wilson
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Keywords: extinct
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-05-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312962126
ISBN-13: 9780312962128

Charles Wilson has received the highest praise from authors such as John Grisham and from reviewers, including being termed "Wizard Plotter" by the Los Angeles Times. Now, he has created his most chilling story yet-- a fast-paced thriller so realistic it will take your breath away and keep you riveted to the page.From the Gulf of Mexico’s warm shallow waters...to the deepest parts of the Pacific...terror comes to the surface...Six-year-old Paul Haines watches as two older boys dive into a coastal river...and don’t come up. His mother, Carolyn, a charter boat captain on the Mississi