Reviews
“Robert Charles Wilson continues to surprise and delight. I can’t think of another science fiction writer who understands the strengths of the genre so well and who works with such confidence within its elastic boundaries…Wilson never loses sight of the human angle. His theme is the importance of communication, which, as his characters come to learn, should never remain one-way.” —The New York Times
“A superior SF thriller.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Blind Lake
“Fizzing with ideas…Intense, absorbing, memorable.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Blind Lake
“Spin is many things: psychological novel, technological thriller, apocalyptic picaresque, cosmological meditation. But it is, foremost, the first major SF novel of 2005, another triumph for Robert Charles Wilson in a long string of triumphs.” — Locus
“The steely quiet of Blind Lake draws you in like a magnet…Wilson does not ever raise his voice, which does not mean he speaks softly. How he speaks is still. In his calm, stony exile’s gaze upon the prisons of the world, and in his measured adherence to storylines that say that everything may become a little better with much work, he is the most purely Canadian of all the writers brought together here, and Blind Lake is the finest Canadian novel of all these.” —John Clute, Toronto Globe and Mail
“Reads like a combination of Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen King.” —Rocky Mountain News on Blind Lake
“Wilson is a master of character development, comparable to the late Theodore Sturgeon…This superb novel, combing Wilson’s trademark well-developed characters and fine prose with stunning high-tech physics, should strongly appeal to connoisseurs of quality science fiction.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on the Chronoliths
“If you read science fiction for its scientific extrapolations, then there’s much here to satisfy. If, like me, you read the genre for its examinations of human lives in a crucible, then The Chronoliths also delivers the goods.” —Nalo Hopkinson, Quill & Quire on the Chronoliths
