Where to Start with Robert Charles Wilson
- Best entry point → Last Year
- Best standalone → The Affinities
- What readers keep coming back to → Axis
- Highest rated by readers → Burning Paradise
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Last Year
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Tourism technology opens doorways to an alternate past where Jesse Cullum accidentally saves President Grant's life during a 1870s vacation. Wilson examines how time travel tourism might work and what happens when visitors interfere with history.
★ 3.84 Goodreads (2.2K ratings) - 2
Axis
Spin • Book 2
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The sequel to Hugo winner Spin takes readers to the engineered world beyond the towering Arch, where human colonists face the mysterious Hypotheticals' agenda. Wilson expands his cosmic-scale science fiction.
★ 3.56 Goodreads (10.1K ratings) - 3
The Affinities
by Robert Charles Wilson, Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Advanced analytics create twenty-two Affinities that sort people into perfect social matches using genetics, brain-mapping, and behavioral data. Joining an Affinity becomes more binding than family.
★ 3.41 Goodreads (2.5K ratings) - 4
Burning Paradise
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What if World War I ended in 1914 and the twentieth century unfolded without major conflicts? Wilson's alternate history follows a young woman discovering the sinister truth behind her world's engineered peace.
★ 3.39 Goodreads (1.9K ratings) - 5
Rip-Off!
by Gardner Dozois, John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, Mike Resnick, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Robert Charles Wilson, Allen M. Steele, Daryl Gregory, Lavie Tidhar, Nancy Kress, Paul Di Filippo, James Patrick Kelly, David Marantz, Dina Pearlman, Allyson Johnson, Marc Vietor, Ilyana Kadushin, Nicola Barber
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Thirteen speculative fiction masters face an unusual challenge: steal a famous opening line from classic literature, then craft an entirely original story around that borrowed beginning.
★ 3.39 Goodreads (914 ratings)