Per cercare una via di scampo a un tragico passato, Raymond Keller acconsente a diventare un Occhio, ovvero un volontario che accetta di farsi impiantare nel cervello un perfetto impianto di registrazione. In tal caso non potrà più guardare dove vorrà, ma solo dove è necessario per vedere, registrare, documentare. E così dimentica il proprio passato, il presente, il futuro. Finché incontra Teresa, la meravigliosa ragazza che è anche una splendida artista. Una donna preda delle violente allucinazioni indotte dai gioielli sognanti seminati in epoche remote da una razza di extraterrestri, e che hanno proprietà ancora non completamente esplorate dalla razza umana. Occorre qualcuno che abbia rinunciato a sé per poter penetrare un segreto tra i meglio custoditi dell’universo.

Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past — and soon to be haunted by the future.

In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory — sixteen years in the future.

Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok-obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord “Kuin” whose victories they note?

Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a final battle with the future.

Ein atemberaubender Alternativweltroman von einem der Shooting Stars der amerikanischen SF: Die westliche Zivilisation hat sich in diesem Szenario zuerst in Amerika entwickelt, und eines Tages wird eine sagenhafte Welt entdeckt – der europäische Kontinent genannt Darwinia.

Utilisant une technologie quantique qu’ils ne comprennent pas totalement, les scientifiques des complexes de Crossbank et Blind Lake observent des planètes extraterrestres distantes de la Terre de plusieurs dizaines d’années-lumière. À Blind Lake, Minnesota, Marguerite Hauser s’intéresse tout particulièrement à un extraterrestre qu’elle appelle « le Sujet », mais que tout le monde surnomme « le homard », à cause de sa morphologie. Et voilà qu’un jour, personne ne sait pourquoi, le Sujet entreprend un pèlerinage qui pourrait bien lui être fatal. Au même moment, l’armée américaine boucle Blind Lake et instaure une quarantaine qui tourne à la tragédie quand un couple qui tentait de s’échapper en voiture est massacré par des drones de combat. Que se passe-t-il à Blind Lake ?

The real star of this gripping and beautifully written mystery which won the British Crime Writers' Golden Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel last year is Portugal, whose history and people come to life on every page. Wilson tells two stories: the investigation into the brutal sex murder of a 15-year-girl in 1998, and the tangled, bloody saga of a financial enterprise that begins with the Nazis in 1941. Although the two stories seem unrelated, both are so strong and full of fascinating characters that readers' attention and their faith that they will eventually be connected should never waver. The author creates three compelling protagonists: middle-aged detective Jose Coelho, better known as Ze; Ze's late British wife, whom he met while exiled in London with his military officer father during the anti-Salazar political uprisings of the 1970s; and Ze's wise, talented and sexually active 16-year-old daughter. The first part of the WWII story focuses on an ambitious, rough-edged but likeable Swabian businessman, Klaus Felsen, convinced by the Gestapo to go to Portugal and seize the lion's share of that country's supply of tungsten, vital to the Nazi war effort. Later, we meet Manuel Abrantes, a much darker and more dangerous character, who turns out to be the main link between the past and the present. As Ze sifts through the sordid circumstances surrounding the murder of the promiscuous daughter of a powerful, vindictive lawyer, Wilson shines a harsh light on contemporary Portuguese society. Then, in alternating chapters, he shows how and why that society developed. All this and a suspenseful mystery who could ask for more?

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

In 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 Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again.

Then out of Labrador come tales of a new Ajax—Captain Commongold, the Youthful Hero of the Saguenay. The ordinary people follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the falsely accused and executed Bryce.

Treachery and intrigue dog Julian’s footsteps. Hairsbreadth escapes and daring rescues fill his days. Stern resolve and tender sentiment dice for Julian’s soul, while his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients, and his adherence to the evolutionary doctrines of the heretical Darwin, set him at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion. Plague and fire swirl around the Presidential palace when at last he arrives with the acclamation of the mob.

As told by Julian’s best friend and faithful companion, a rustic yet observant lad from the west, this tale of the 22nd Century asks—and answers—the age-old question: “Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?”

Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010.

To escape his past, Keller has become an Eye—an all-seeing, unfeeling human video recorder. But his detachment fails when he meets Teresa, and he becomes involved in murder, smuggling and worse.

In the 22nd century, interstellar travel is possible but expensive, so human efforts are concentrated on Isis, the only nearby Earth-like world. Isis is rich with life, but toxic, so people like Zoe are genetically engineered from before birth to explore the planet and face its terrors.

Karen White can open “doors” between universes. This power, which she shares with her brother and sister, has been suppressed since childhood. But now it appears in her teenage son, Michael, who is approached by a mysterious figure known only as the Grey Man, a figure who has haunted Karen’s dreams for decades. Fleeing to her sister Laura’s reality, Karen and Michael have to undertake a terrifying and painful journey into the past—to discover the secret of their power and the truth about the Grey Man and his masters.

Physician Matt Wheeler is one of the few who said no to eternity. As he watches his friends, his colleagues, even his beloved daughter transform into something more-and less-than human, Matt suddenly finds everything he once believed about good and evil, life and death, god and mortal called into question. And he finds himself forced to choose sides in an apocalyptic struggle—a struggle that very soon will change the face of the universe itself.

Returning to his hometown after a failed marriage, recovering alcoholic Tom Winter purchases a house only to discover that it connects with another time and place—and his desire to “start over” suddenly becomes a literal possibility.

Wilson excels at psychological suspense, as the spiritual and emotional challenges his characters face are as intense as the physical dangers.

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best novel in 1991

In the hard years of the Depression, young Travis lives with his uncle and aunt. Upstairs lives the mysterious Anna. Anna says she’s going to be “changing”, and she needs Travis’s help… for purposes she won’t explain. What follows is a tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best novel in 1986

In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up to a world strangely different from their own—a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something has gone terribly wrong, something that has to do with the mysterious government facility on the outskirts of town.

Won Philip K. Dick Award for Best novel in 1994.

The author depicts the plight of John Shaw, a gene-engineered superman, and his alter ego Benjamin. John is the cold genius and Benjamin the engaging “normal” man fighting to survive.