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Title: The Perseids and Other Stories by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0-312-87374-3 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very strange
Comment: This book is more horror than science fiction. It's very strange, very dark, and very disturbing. I can't call any of the stories "optimistic." I can call them nightmares that have made their way into print. I have never read anything like this. The
author is very imaginative. But I wonder, what kind of a mind can write stories like this?
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting anthology
Comment: This is a fascinating science fiction anthology that centers on a small bookstore, Finders, as if that place is the vortex of the universe. Each story is well written and connects back to the bookstore, some more so than others. Three tales are new though if readers are like this reviewer they were unaware that the author had written any short stories so all the tales are new. As with his novels, Robert Charles Wilson has written an exciting book that showcase why this writer is one of the centers of the genre as short science fiction is rarely as good.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: Archons and Demiurges Populating Northern Lights of Toronto
Comment: Robert Charles Wilson's fictions are always a great pleasure to read: populated by heartbroken, sometimes courageous, sometimes tragic characters caught in the galactic spinning wheels not of their design, depicted in elegant, spare and caustically witty prose, and addressing heavy metaphysical questions without losing sight of human-scale sufferings and losses. I sort of regard him as Graham Greene of contemporary science fiction, a healthy antidote to all the postmodern ironies and self-congratulatory razzle-dazzle that infect fictions of every genre these days. His first collection of short stories is, if anything, sparer and tougher than his epic novels like MYSTERIUM or DARWINA. Without employing unnecessary pyrotechnics (although he does kill off all life on earth in "Infinity Divided by Infinity") or dangling his attitude in front of our noses, Wilson draws us into the realm of horrors and wonders both cosmic (like Lovecraft minus the baroque intimations of "unspeakable") and personal. Potentially dreary subjects like alien abduction ("The Observer") and mineral-based life form ("Pearl Baby") are reworked into strange and unexpected touching meditations on the nature of mystery and the human ambivalence toward it. On the other hand, the collection's intimate scope might turn off fans of BIOS and DARWINIA, the stories being firmly rooted in the physical and emotional geography of Toronto. Some may also feel that science is not "hard" enough; others may object to the author's somewhat strenuous effort to construct a "shared world" around the stories that seem to have very little in common. I for one am quite satisfied, and am eagerly looking forward to his second collection.
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Title: The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0812545249 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bios by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0812575741 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0765302616 Publisher: Orb Books Pub. Date: 21 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0812566629 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Harvest by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0553292218 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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