Robert Charles Wilson

One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out....

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley who is transported 10,000 years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals”....

At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch life in a city of lobster-like aliens on a distant planet....

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....

Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past - and soon to be haunted by the future. In early 21st-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker.....

In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past - but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world....

In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters....

To join one of the 22 Affinities is to change one's life. It's like family, and more than family. Your fellow members aren't just like you, and they aren't just people who are likely to like you....

Cassie Klyne, 19 years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015 - but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015....

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. In Owning the Unknown, Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism....

The climax of the Magic Time saga finds former lawyer turned leader Cal Griffin continuing his quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds sway....

A secluded Pacific Northwest cottage becomes a door to the past for Tom Winter, who travels back to the New York City of 1962, followed by a human killing machine that he alone must stop....

In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity....

Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents....