Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Chronoliths

The Chronoliths

Robert Charles Wilson
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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--twenty 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. 

The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Language
English
Pages
315
Format
Mass Market Paperback
Publisher
Tor Science Fiction
Release
June 17, 2002
ISBN
0812545249
ISBN 13
9780812545241

The Chronoliths

Robert Charles Wilson
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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--twenty 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. 

The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Language
English
Pages
315
Format
Mass Market Paperback
Publisher
Tor Science Fiction
Release
June 17, 2002
ISBN
0812545249
ISBN 13
9780812545241

More books from Robert Charles Wilson

Spin

4/5 ( ratings)

Axis

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Vortex

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Darwinia

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Blind Lake

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Affinities

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Spin

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Burning Paradise

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Last Year

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Vortex

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rip-Off!

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Harvest

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

4/5 ( ratings)

Year's Best SF 15

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Ghostlands

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 88

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Gypsies

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader