Charles Wilson: 76 books

Book cover of Last Year
by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past,...
Book cover of The Chronoliths
by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014

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....
Book cover of Chew On This

Chew On This

Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

by Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012

Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn’t survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald’s? It’s true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant. Not...
Book cover of Blind Lake
by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2004

2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade Finalist 2004 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novel Robert Charles Wilson, says The New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." His Darwinia won Canada's Aurora Award; his most recent novel, The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John...
Book cover of A Hidden Place
by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2002

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. Robert Charles Wilson's A Hidden Place is a science fiction tale...
Book cover of Tony Abbott and the Times of Revolution
by Gerard Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018

In 2012, a passage in David Marr's book POLITICAL ANIMAL: THE MAKING OF TONY ABBOTT caused uproar across Australia. The passage was about an incident of violence that (allegedly) occurred thirty-five years earlier when Abbott was a student at Sydney University. Abbott’s many critics in politics...
Book cover of The Witch Hunters
by Gerard Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Paul Zomers arranges a welcome for new neighbours Haydies and Persefony Sticks. After more drinks than is wise, Paul blurts out that he knows Catholic priest Fr Robert Pleasance who at that moment is front-page in the media for the abuse of a minor. Partner Brad and the new neighbours will not let...
Book cover of Extinct
by Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1997

Charles Wilson has received the highest praise from authors such as John Grisham and from reviewers, including being termed "Wizard Plotter" by the Los Angeles Times. Now, he has created his most chilling story yet-- a fast-paced thriller so realistic it will take your breath away and keep...
Book cover of Game Plan
by Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016

National bestselling author Charles Wilson delivers a cutting-edge thriller based on real-life experiments at improving human intelligence currently underway in both government and private circles. Imagine a computer chip no bigger than the tip of a pencil. This chip, if implanted in a human brain,...
Book cover of Bios
by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focussed on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is spectacularly...
Book cover of Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

From the author of Axis and Vortex, the first Hugo Award-winning novel in the environmental apocalyptic Spin Trilogy... One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared,...
Book cover of Darwinia

Darwinia

A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century

by Robert Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007

In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedeluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving American...
Book cover of Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands
by Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

My first thanks must go to the Electors to Ford's Lectureship in English History in the University of Oxford, who honoured me with the invitation to discharge that formidable responsibility in 1969, generously interpreting the statute so as to allow me to deal with a subject which contained nearly...
Book cover of Profit and Power

Profit and Power

A Study of England and the Dutch Wars

by Charles Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Historical explanations need to keep step with the march of research if they are not to degenerate into empty cliches. It has long been a commonplace of 17th century history that the Anglo-Dutch Wars were the product of 'commercial rivalry'. This essay, first published twenty years ago, attempted...
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