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Fiction Time Travel

A Bridge of Years

by (author) Robert Charles Wilson

Publisher
Tor/Forge
Initial publish date
Dec 2011
Category
Time Travel, Alien Contact, Adventure
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780765327420
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $37.99

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Description

Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge—a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is the present. At the other end—New York City, 1963.
His journey back to the early 1960s seems to offer him the chance to start over in a simpler, safer world. But he finds that the tunnel holds a danger far greater than anything he left behind: a human killing machine escaped from a bleak and brutal future, who will do anything to protect the secret passage that he thought was his alone. To preserve his worlds, past and present, Tom Winter must face the terrors of an unknown world to come.
From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, A Bridge of Years is a classic science fiction story of time-travel and human transformation.

About the author

Robert Charles Wilson was born in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he became a Canadian citizen. He resided in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and breifly in Vancouver. Currently he lives with his wife Sharry in Concord, Ontario, just north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon. His novel Spin won science fiction’s Hugo Award in 2006. Earlier, he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel A Hidden Place; Canada’s Aurora Award for Darwinia; and the John W. Campbell Award for The Chronoliths.

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Awards

  • Nominated, Hugo Award - Nominee
  • Winner, John W. Campbell Memorial Award - Winner

Editorial Reviews

“Wilson transforms a simple time travel novel into a moving reflection on love, despair, and the resilience of the human spirit.” —Publishers Weekly
“Robert Charles Wilson is a hell of a storyteller.” —Stephen King
“Robert Charles Wilson is one of the best science fiction writers alive.” —Rocky Mountain News