"Robert Charles Wilson is a hell of a storyteller."
--Stephen King
"One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking ''what
if,'' Wilson builds an astonishingly successful mélange of SF
thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict,
ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the
music of the spheres."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on
Spin
"Robert Charles Wilson is one of the best science-fiction writers
alive, a fact borne out in his latest work. Spin is the
best science-fiction novel so far this year."
--Rocky Mountain News
"Wilson''s most ambitious and most successful novel to
date.Wide-ranging and well-crafted."
--San Diego Union-Tribune on
Spin
"The long-anticipated marriage between the hard sf novel and the
literary novel, resulting in an offspring possessing the robust
ideational vigor of the former with the graceful narrative
subtleties of the latter, might finally have occurred in the form
of Robert Charles Wilson''s Spin. Here''s a book that
features speculative conceits as brash and thrilling as those found
in any space opera, along with insights into the human condition as
rich as those contained within any mainstream mimetic fiction, with
both its conceits and insights beautifully embedded in crystalline
prose..Wilson does so many fine things, it''s hard to know where to
begin to praise him."
--The Washington Post
"Of all SF writers currently active, Robert Charles Wilson may well
be the best at balancing cosmic drama with human
drama.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
"One of SF''s distinctive qualities, often derided by mainstream
critics as a weakness, is its literalization of metaphor, but
Wilson''s masterful exploitation of the Membrane''s fictional
possibilities provides an exhilarating demonstration of why
precisely the opposite can be true...Spin is also a family
drama that would not be out of place on mainstream
shelves...Spin is a provocative, frequently dazzling
read."
--SCIFI.COM
"A subtle and thought-provoking writer. Just when the reader thinks
he knows where Wilson is going, he finds himself somewhere else
entirely."
--Robin Hobb on Robert Charles Wilson
"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 on Blind
Lake
"A superior SF thriller."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Blind
Lake
"Fizzing with ideas.Intense, absorbing, memorable."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Blind
Lake
"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