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	Review \| The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson
		Considering the big idea at the heart of The Chronoliths, it's surprising how low-key Robert Charles Wilson's novel actually is. An enigmatic warlord from the future, Kuin, is sending giant monuments some 20 years into the past at the sites of his victories.
		The chronoliths, with all their reality-altering implications, make governments more paranoid than ever, and Scott's life -- along with that of many others -- is henceforth under the microscope.
		It is itself a chronolith of sorts: an artifact of future times that invites reflection on the present.
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/chronoliths.html (812 words)

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		Whether it be through trials, like his wife and child leaving him, or through triumphs, as in being part of Chronolith (as the monuments are dubbed) study team, Scotty can't escape the shadow of the ominous structures, nor the destiny they ordain for him.
		The story of Scott Warden and the CHRONOLITHS is one of loneliness and self discovery.
		Scott is pulled into the Chronolith phenomena by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
	www.yetanotherbookreview.com /chronoliths.htm (441 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Chronoliths / Robert Charles Wilson
		Now the hand-to-mouth lives he and his family struggle through are rocked by the sudden emergence of an enormous tower in the midst of the Thai landscape; made of an indeterminate and inscrutable substance, it bears an inscription commemorating a military conquest by someone named Kuin...a conquest to take place 20 years in the future.
		Ten years flow by as Wilson parallels Scott's tattered life with the tumultuous state of the world in the wake of further chronolith appearances, most of which are now taking place in the middle of cities and resulting in massive destruction and chaos.
		In the end, The Chronoliths is all a repudiation of fate, and a reaffirmation of the idea that human beings can control their destinies if only they work up the guts to do it.
	www.sfreviews.net /chronoliths.html (696 words)

	Robert Charles Wilson, The Chronoliths
		Early in the 21st century, enormous objects called "chronoliths" begin to materialise in various regions of the world, sometimes in the centre of cities.
		Chopra develops the quantum theory of "tau turbulence" and is convinced by her findings that Scott will play a pivotal role in defeating the chronoliths; i.e., preventing them from materializing on the mainland U.S., an event thought essential to fulfilment of the engraved prophecy.
		The occasion is the imminent arrival of the first chronolith on U.S. soil, and Scott, in agreement with tau turbulence theory, is brought painfully, dramatically and reluctantly to the centre of events.
	www.rambles.net /wilson_chrono01.html (629 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Chronoliths
		Scott Warden is an impulsive and unlucky man who, resident among the shifty expatriate beach bohemians of the Thai coast, is affected by the backwash of the first Chronolith's arrival nearby.
		Over the next twenty years, he, his estranged wife, his handicapped daughter Kaitlin, a resourceful drug dealer of their acquaintance, and the members of a US government team investigating Kuin's endless series of cyclopean apparitions find themselves caught in a curious dance of coincidences, the gambits by which Time sutures or reconfigures itself.
		Marital schisms and parental anxieties somehow mesh with the mechanics of emerging world history; this linkage is sustained, affecting, and fascinating; and Wilson, ever prone to shading his texts with vertiginous disillusionment, vouchsafes his protagonist a final direly-won wisdom, and his reader the moral that time cannot heal all wounds, although it may repair some.
	www.sfsite.com /10b/cl114.htm (632 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Chronoliths, The (Robert Charles Wilson)
		But the most frightening part about the chronolith is that it bears an inscription marking it as a monument to a military victory of somebody named Kuin--20 years in the future.
		And Wilson deals honestly with it here--the chronoliths are, indeed, monuments sent back from the future, and indeed the appearance of these chronoliths provokes a slew of time-travel and materials research in an effort to understand what Kuin is (will be?) doing.
		There is indeed an explanation for the chronoliths; it is not quite what you expect, but it is also not a complete surprise.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/WilsonRobertCharlesChronolithsThe.shtml (531 words)

	- LIBROS DE DIBUJO Y ANIMACIÓN - The Chronoliths ..::DIBUNET.COM::..Animacion:Dibujos ...
		The artifact is a chronolith, a memorial commemorating the conquest of Thailand--20 years in the future.
		Chronoliths is along the same lines but with a slightly different angle, though no less interesting for it.
		But then he sets around him a good-sized cast of characters, his ex-wife, his old physics professor who is trying to short-circuit the monolith appearances, an old drug-runner friend, weaving their lives into the changing world and into his life as well, spinning plausible coincidences and so on into the story itself.
	www.dibunet.com /amazon-buy-0812545249.html (863 words)

	Robert Charles Wilson The Chronoliths Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		I read 'The Chronoliths' on the heels of the events of September 11, 2001, when two airliners were used to destroy two huge buildings in Manhattan.
		Three hundred feet high, made of a material never before seen on earth and difficult to analyze, it hold an inscription near the bottom celebrating the victory of "the massed forces of someone (or something) called 'Kuin', and beneath the text was the date of this historic battle.
		Though 'The Chronoliths' itself does a lot of contemplation of alternate timelines and is purely imaginative from the first page, Wilson seems to be writing about a world he knows intimately.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/wilson-the_chronoliths.htm (504 words)

	Review: The Chronoliths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Chronoliths is told in first person via the view point of Scott Warden (as opposed to the third person account in Darwinia).
		He is a decent guy who is smart enough to recognize his mistakes but is not clever enough to find a way to travel back in time and erase those mistakes.
		Chronoliths are huge monuments made of seemingly indestructible materials.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/roboman/www/sigma/review/chronoliths.html (567 words)

	Robert Charles Wilson The Chronoliths Reviewed by Rick Kleffel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		I read 'The Chronoliths' on the heels of the events of September 11, 2001, when two airliners were used to destroy two huge buildings in Manhattan.
		Three hundred feet high, made of a material never before seen on earth and difficult to analyze, it hold an inscription near the bottom celebrating the victory of "the massed forces of someone (or something) called 'Kuin', and beneath the text was the date of this historic battle.
		Though 'The Chronoliths' itself does a lot of contemplation of alternate timelines and is purely imaginative from the first page, Wilson seems to be writing about a world he knows intimately.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/wilson-the_chronoliths.htm (504 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Chronoliths: Livres en anglais: Robert Charles Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Chronoliths is his best novel yet, an intelligent, fascinating, and frightening account of a unique incarnation of time travel.
		The artifact is a chronolith, a memorial commemorating the conquest of Thailand--20 years in the future.
		As the chronoliths close in on America, Scott joins with biker and undercover agent Hitch Paley and experimental physicist Sue Chopra in a literal race against time to find a way to change the future--which has already happened.
	www.amazon.fr /Chronoliths-Robert-Charles-Wilson/dp/0812545249 (633 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		They discover that the Chronoliths purport to be monuments to the military victories of a warlord named Kuin...
		While the Chronoliths topple world capitals and alter political landscapes, Scott Warden struggles with smaller concerns: staying employed and mending his relationship with his daughter.
		The Chronoliths has moments of sheer brilliance and is one of the most suspenseful books I have read this year.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue228/books.html (628 words)

	Special Circumstances: The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson
		Is Kuin a new Alexander the Great or a new Genghis Khan sending a signal of his future victories back into time, or is he creating his own legend by sending back messages which are designed to transform human society so that it can be easily subjugated.
		The Chronoliths is a story with central strong scientific idea, one that is implausible but nonetheless impacts on human society and our concepts of free will and determinism.
		The Chronoliths is a welcome addition to the crowded time-travel sf sub-genre.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000210.html (508 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Chronoliths
		As he attempts to get his life back on track, he is caught in a strange loop that keeps drawing him back to do battle with the future.
		Sue is working on the chronoliths and making even more progress than her government bosses realize.
		As new chronoliths appear ever closer to Europe and America, economies crumble and violent cults appear in the name of Kuin.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=51959095 (594 words)

	Phobos Entertainment - Reviews - Books - Chronoliths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		For he soon learns that the structure, labeled a Chronolith, is actually a monument projected from the future by a faceless warlord known as Kuin to serve as a marker for a conquest that is decades from becoming a reality.
		The first Chronolith shatters his home and destroys his family, but then others soon appear, taking their toll on the world.
		But when Chronoliths landings destroy cities like Bangkok and Jerusalem, Warden realizes he must help uncover the devastatingly sublime power of the Chronoliths, and help devise a means to break their hold, first on his own daughter, and then on a world, before everything he knows plunges into madness.
	www.phobosweb.com /reviews/books/chronoliths.html (483 words)

	Amazon.com: The Chronoliths: Books: Robert Charles Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A talented SF writer who has never gained the name recognition he deserves, Wilson (Darwinia) is a master of character development, comparable to the late Theodore Sturgeon in his believable portrayals of emotionally scarred loners.
		As the chronoliths appear, marking sites where Kuin is victorious in battles 20 years into the future, the idea of reification emerges as the backdrop of the novel.
		What's even odder is that an inscription on the monument (dubbed a "Chronolith" by journalists) makes clear that it commemorates some sort of military victory by somebody named "Kuin" -- twenty years and three months in the future.
	www.amazon.com /Chronoliths-Robert-Charles-Wilson/dp/0312873840 (2257 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Robert Charles Wilson - The Chronoliths at Epinions.com
		In 2021, American expatriate Scott Jordan and his wife and daughter are barely scraping by in Thailand after Jordan's employment contract dries up when the first structure arrives in the country's interior.
		Before any of those questions are answered, another chronolith "touches down" in the center of Bangkok, a densely populated city -- and this one kills thousands.
		As more chronoliths appear in different areas of southeast Asia, then the Middle East, then other places in the world, Jordan and Chopra work to try and figure out their mystery.
	www.epinions.com /content_63956487812?linkin_id=8003929 (446 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A fine example of a "friendlier" novel is Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths, which has a simple but fascinating premise worthy of a "Twilight Zone" jumping-off point.
		Soon dubbed "chronoliths," the huge, indestructible structures begin appearing across Asia and the Middle East, celebrating the victories of an as-yet-unknown dictator named "Kuin." Through Warden's eyes, we see the world incur political and economic upheaval as Kuin, though a complete enigma, becomes a symbol of inevitable defeat in the future.
		As fanatical factions both for and against Kuin spread across America, Warden sporadically works with a brilliant physicist trying to solve the secrets of the chronoliths and halt their spread.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:8006 (299 words)

	Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo and The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson « Bob’s Book Reviews
		The Chronoliths, by Robert Charles Wilson, is a superb example of how great science fiction can be, and how it can be both about our lives and times, people and relationships, and also contain a deeply interesting mystery which you care about and want to see resolved.
		In The Chronoliths, giant monuments appear out of nowhere, apparently sent back through time to celebrate a military victory some years in the future.
		So the whole of the human race then becomes obsessed with how this future war comes to take place, who wins, and how the monuments are sent back.
	bobsbooks.wordpress.com /2007/01/07/ship-of-fools-by-richard-paul-russo-and-the-chronoliths-by-robert-charles-wilson (1175 words)

	The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson - an infinity plus review
		These chronoliths, as the media dubs them, seem to be sent from the future and are composed of a heretofore unknown substance.
		The arrival of each chronolith is marked by intense bursts of cold and destruction.
		Around the world, in a near future beset by the same inequities and global social problems known today (only perhaps more so), many people, faced with a hopeless future in a political system that doesn't seem to care about them, see in the enigmatic Kuin not a conqueror but a saviour.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /fantasticfiction/chronoliths.htm (399 words)

	unbossed.com » Reprise - The Myth of Rove Invincibility
		The technology that creates the Chronoliths, let alone permitting them to be erected in the past, is a mystery.
		As each Chronolith is planted city by city, terror gives way to factions that decide the only solution is to side with Kuin.
		Their purpose is to make Kuin every more invincible in his present, by making him appear invincible in the past.
	www.unbossed.com /index.php?itemid=1143 (1260 words)

	The Chronoliths in ZhurnalWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths is a fun, fast-paced science-fiction novel with exceptionally good prose, decent characterization, and a provocative premise involving causality and paradox — definitely a worthwhile read.
		Alas for nit-pickers: Chronoliths suffers from a flawed, deeply pre-Copernican worldview.
		Why should an object sent decades backward in time appear at precisely the same location — relative to a turning, precessing, revolving Earth — as the object was transmitted from?
	zhurnal.net /ww/zw?TheChronoliths (155 words)

	The Laboratorium: The Chronoliths
		Writing the novel from the point of view of a regular guy trying to ignore these “chronoliths” and go about his business was, if you ask me, a dumb move.
		If the chronolith says it comes from 20 years in the future, someone will be there to send it back.
		Here, it’s not clear that anyone needs to send the chronolith backwards in time in “our” timestream; it might have come from some “other” future, which, ironically enough, is no longer the future, because of its own meddling with what was its past.
	www.laboratorium.net /archives/TheChronoliths.html (1284 words)

	Review of Robert Charles Wilson novel The Chronoliths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		And there is a vague pattern to their appearance as if an army is marching across the Earth.
		Then scientists learn how to predict their - the chronoliths - arrival.
		As the chronoliths all date from just a decade and a half into the future then Kuin should be alive now?
	www.concatenation.org /frev/cronlith.html (332 words)

	Amazon.ca: Blind Lake: Books: Robert Charles Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Wilson (The Chronoliths) grapples with the ineffable in a superior SF thriller notable for credible characters and a well-crafted plot.
		So- long and short of it is, there's some excitement, there's interesting subplots, there's interesting characters, there's aliens, all of which are items that hold great potential- and none of which lived up to their potential.
		Your mileage may vary, however; if you pay attention to the physics and astronomy and don't really care about the subplots involving personal lives, then you may be happy just to have the questions raised, and not unhappy with the lack of resolution.
	www.amazon.ca /Blind-Lake-Robert-Charles-Wilson/dp/0765302624 (1961 words)

	Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site
		When his work contract in Thailand is cancelled he decides to stay on and live a carefree expatriate beachlife existence with his wife and young daughter, surviving on their savings.
		Standing their in the middle of tropical forest is a two hundred foot tall stone pillar partially encased in ice.
		The sense of time passing and the effect of the Chronoliths becoming more apparant throughout society and nations is handled extremely well and without over-elaboration.
	www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/w/wilsonrobertcharles/thechronoliths.html (341 words)

	FACT SF Reading Group
		The story follows a group of scientists trying to figure out how the chronoliths are getting sent from the future, why they are being sent, and how to avert the supposedly inevitable conquest of the planet.
		He felt that the author did not understand physics, the characters were mundane, and the computer programming in the book was bad.
		Overall we thought The Chronoliths was a good book, and its topic provided us with a lively discussion.
	www.fact.org /reading/reports/oct02.shtml (690 words)

	Amazon.de: The Chronoliths: English Books: Robert Charles Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Monuments are pushed back through time for about twenty years to commemorate battles in the future which in the book stwenty years later then do not happen.
		Either, you indulge in the many futures theory that vertex at the time, when the chronoliths appear, or the battle has taken place, because the chronoliths are there to prove it.
		Basically, the war is in peoples minds and thus changes the everything, as everyboy erxpects it to start.
	www.amazon.de /Chronoliths-Robert-Charles-Wilson/dp/0812545249 (895 words)

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