Robert Wilson
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Portugal, 1944. Recruited by British intelligence to help uncover Nazi secrets of atomic warfare, math prodigy Andrea Aspinall soon disappears into the crowds of Lisbon, hiding behind a new identity. Karl Voss, an attaché for German intelligence, arrives in the city under the purported agenda of helping the Reich, all the while secretly working to save his beloved home country from annihilation under their reign. Two lost souls meet in a city filled...
Author
Series
Description
As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody's terrorist fears. Panic sweeps the city and the region goes on red alert. As more bodies are dragged from the rubble, the media interest and political pressure intensify and Falcón suspects that all is not what it...
3) Darwinia
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Young Guilford Law leaves an America ruled by religious fundamentalists and travels to Darwinia--the land that was Europe before being transformed by the Miracle in 1912--where he learns the truth about man's destiny in the universe.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Prometheus Rising describes the landscape of human evolution and offers the reader an opportunity to become a conscious participant. In an astoundingly useful road map infused with humor and startling insight, Robert Anton Wilson presents the Eight Circuits of the Brain model as an essential guide for the effort to break free of imprinted and programmed behavior, Bob writes, "We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the year 2015 in an alternate reality, eighteen-year-old Cassie Iverson shares a dangerous secret with a small group of people. She knows that the peace and prosperity her United States has enjoyed since the Great Armistice of 1914 has been engineered by an extraterrestrial entity that has been farming humans for unknown purposes. The members of this group have worked hard not to draw attention to themselves, but it no longer matters because the...
8) Last year
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"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. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
9) Vortex
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.
Author
Series
Colorado heritage volume 3
Description
Four brief stories depict experiences of trappers and fur traders in Colorado duing the first half of the nineteenth century.
14) Mysterium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own.
16) Spin
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Appears on list
Description
"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, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives." "The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk - a heat source, rather than an astronomical object....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy with his father, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during the Civil War that he became the founding father of what is now called photojournalism and his photography...
18) The explorer King: adventure, science, and the great diamond hoax : Clarence King in the Old West
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Clarence King was a scientist-explorer who uncovered one of the greatest frauds of the nineteenth century, the Great Diamond Hoax.
19) Wagons and Rails
Author
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
Four stories illustrate the use of wagon trains and railroads in Colorado from the late 19th century through the early 20th century.
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