Wilson, Robert Charles

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The affinities

After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another -- in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever.

Blind Lake

2003
Blind Lake, a large federal research installation, is home to scientists observing a city of lobsterlike aliens on a distant planet, including an ex-husband-and-wife team who must find a way to put their differences aside when they become isolated due to a military cordon placed on the site.

The Perseids and other stories

2000
A collection of nine short stories by Robert Charles Wilson.

Spin

2006
After witnessing the onset of an astronomical event that has caused the sun to go black and the stars and moon to disappear, Tyler, Jason, and Diane learn that the darkness has been caused by a time-altering, alien-created artificial barrier and that the sun will be extinguished in less than forty years.

Gypsies

1989
A family with the ability to enter alternate realities struggles to lead a normal life, but when the man responsible for several deaths in their family makes his presence known, they follow him into another realm.

Spin

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. The moon is gone, but tides remain.

Julian Comstock

a story of 22nd-century America
2009
Julian Comstock, nephew of President Deklan Comstock in post-collapse America, comes to the attention of his uncle when he achieves war hero status for his antics on the front lines of Labrador, and must somehow try to avoid the ire of the tyrannical Comstock who had his own brother--Julian's father--killed for the crime of being too popular.
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