The Chronoliths - by Robert Charles Wilson (Paperback)

About the Book

"One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory--sixteen years hence. As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future"--Publisher marketing.

Book Synopsis

Hugo Award nominee and winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award

One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory...sixteen years hence.

As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future.

Review Quotes

"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction -- The Chronoliths stands with his best." --The New York Times

"Superb." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

About the Author

Born in California, Robert Charles Wilson grew up in Canada. He is the author of many acclaimed SF novels including the Hugo Award-winning Spin.