Роберт Чарльз Уилсон

В представленной ниже убедительной повести автор рассказывает о двух молодых людях, которых ожидают совершенно разные судьбы, если, конечно, они сумеют помочь друг другу пережить одну холодную и опасную зимнюю ночь.

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life. It...

Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a gi...

Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time.

In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focussed on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is spectacularly toxic to human beings. The entire planet is a permanent Level Four Hot Zone. Despite ...

In a small American town during the Depression, a motley group of people gather, drawn together by fate and strange, unknowable forces. When the survivors part, they and the town will never be the same.

Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015 - but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it s...

When humans are offered immortality by alien travellers, only one in 10,000 says no. Mat Wheeler, an Oregon doctor, refuses and his decision cuts him off from all those he cares for. On the ultimate day, Wheeler persuades some of the newly-immortalized to remain on Earth and guard the helpless.

Далекое и близкое будущее, искусственный интеллект и преобразование биологической природы человека, постмодернистская литературная игра и детектив, постапокалипсис и альтернативная реальность, космическая экспансия, живые корабли и контакты с чуждым разумом, Земля, Солнечная система и дальний космос - весь спектр научной фантастики представлен в новой антологии Гарднера Дозуа. Как всегда, он п...