Books by Robert Charles Wilson
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review 1: Wilson writes well and the book held my interest all the way through. I was at first put off by the implausible alternative history premise. The basic idea is that in this 2014 Earth the radio-reflective layer is alive and intelligent; it keeps humans from yet another world war b...
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review 1: This is a fascinating take on possible future history. It is told from the point of view of a relatively literate middle-class person (middle-class in this case meaning non-slave but not land-holding). The political situation and the religious situation show human nature at its...
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review 1: Very haunting book about the world being secretly directed by a hypercolony. They function kind of like insects, but live through radio waves. They have taken over Earth's mass communications and, by so doing, have guided Earth for the last several decades into peace (so that Ear...
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review 1: Topically not my favorite type of story, but Wilson's writing still shines. A couple of instances: "...the kind of riddle that cuts close to the tear ducts in its nonsense..." (p. 154); And on p. 164: "For one fragile moment–a fraction of time as motionless as a bug in amber..." ...