The Chronoliths

Robert Charles Wilson

May 2014 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction . . . The Chronoliths stands with his best." — The New York Times

One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. 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.

As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery—and a final battle with the future.

The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

"Superb." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Ratings and reviews

Very good book by a very good author. As I started reading, I wasn't so sure I'd like this book, but by page 50 or so I was hooked and breezed through the remaining pages. Good sci-fi story, grounded in human drama. The sci-fi often takes a back seat to the human story in front of it.

I liked following Scotty, but thought the ending would wrap up better than it did. Far away than his Spin series, which were leaps ahead than this book. The writing is as if it came from Scotty himself, which isn't a bad thing, but can be distracting.

Missing the last pages!!!!!

About the author

Robert Charles Wilson's novels include Darwinia; The Chronoliths and Blind Lake, which were finalists for SF's Hugo Award; and Spin, which won the 2006 Hugo for best novel. He is a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.