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Title	:	The Chronoliths
Author	:	Robert Charles Wilson
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 315 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2002 by Tor Science Fiction (first published August 2001)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Time Travel. Audiobook. Science Fiction Fantasy. Speculative Fiction. Fantasy

The Chronoliths

Robert Charles Wilson

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 315 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 4777 Users | 318 Reviews

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Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future.

In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory--sixteen years in the future.

Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok-obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note?

Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a final battle with the future. 

The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

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Original Title:	The Chronoliths
ISBN:	0812545249 (ISBN13: 9780812545241)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2002), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2002), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2006), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2002), John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2002) Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2004), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2003), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (2002)

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This is the third book I've read by Robert Charles Wilson (along with Spin and its sequel Axis), and he is now on his way to becoming one of my very favorite sci-fi authors.Shortest version: RCW writes the kind of fiction I hope I can write one day. His stories all have big ideas at their heart, but he does rich and deep world-building around them. All the hard work he does imagining the diverse ways people and society would react to those big ideas succeeds at making the ideas seem much more

In The Chronoliths, the world is rocked by the sudden arrival of massive obelisks, or "chronoliths," which appear to be a future conqueror's monuments to battles that have not yet occurred. As the chronoliths continue to appear, the world descends into economic and social chaos. Robert Charles Wilson is a brilliant writer and this is standard fare for him: a character story involving normal people caught up in major, world-altering preternatural events.While The Chronoliths has an interesting

In 2021, a gigantic memorial appears out of nowhere in the middle of Thailand. The text on the memorial refers to a great battle fought there and a victorious general "Kuin" and gives a date: December 21, 2041 - 20 years in the future. How did the memorial get there? Who is this Kuin? Can he really send objects through time?Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths is a dystopian fiction with elements of time travel (heavily) thrown in. It's a fascinating premise, and the picture Wilson paints of

I read this book in less than 24 hours. I normally only manage to read books that quickly when I am on holiday, so you can see how compelling a read this one was.How great too that it's only 301 pages long. So many books these days seem unnecessarily long but this is just the perfect length.

Storyline: 4/5Characters: 3/5Writing Style: 3/5World: 4/5This is one of my favorite science fiction reads thus far this year. Others I've enjoyed about as much include The Mote in God's Eye and Anvil of Stars, though I think The Chronoliths was the best of the three. I would place it on a shelf with "idea" books - a category I very much enjoy. Other, similar books that it shares shelf space with include Philip Jose Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Vernor Vinge's

Frankly, I don't think I'm able to say much about it because I don't think I understood it completely. No, I'm sure I didn't.The premise is this: chronoliths are suddenly starting to appear all over Asia and expand in some other regions. They are monuments from an unknown material which praise the victory of one named Kuin in wars which will occur 20 years in the future. Nobody knows who is Kuin, but the world is thrown into chaos, because some of these giants appeared in the middle of cities,

The Chronoliths was a book I may never have read were it not for the rise of the eBook. This novel caught my attention long ago, but couldn't be found on local bookshelves, and had to be ordered, if I wanted to read it. So it got added to my wishlist, and eventually was released for Kindle. Naturally, I bought it. And I'm glad I did.Robert Charles Wilson has quickly become one of my favorites, and The Chronoliths is yet another of his fantastic works. His books are subtle, and yet marvelously