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Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953) is an American-Canadian science fiction author. Career Wilson was born in the United States 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 for a while in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and briefly in Vancouver. Currently he lives with his wife Sharry in Concord, a neighbourhood of Vaughan, Ontario located north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon. His work has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel (for Spin), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for the novel The Chronoliths), the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novelette "The Cartesian Theater"), three Prix Aurora Awards (for the novels Blind Lake and Darwinia, and the short work "The Perseids"), and the Philip K. Dick Award (for the novel Mysterium). Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America was a 2010 Hugo Award nominee in the Best Novel category. In addition to the novels listed below, he is the author of the short-story collection The Perseids and Other Stories, set in Toronto. His first publication appeared in the February 1975 issue of Analog Science Fiction, under the name Bob Chuck Wilson.

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Notable quotes

“I pretended to admire the tattoo in the shape of the Greek letter omega that covered her cheeks and forehead. It looked as if a dray horse had kicked her in the face.”
— p. 87
“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”
— Chapter 25 (p. 209)
“Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin’s age possess no context; one video event is much like another.”
— Chapter 3 (p. 32)
“He’s exactly what she wants. He’s the last thing she needs.”
— p. 72
“Evolution can’t be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim.”
— p. 57
“Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.”
— Chapter 29 (p. 278)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“I pretended to admire the tattoo in the shape of the Greek letter omega that covered her cheeks and forehead. It looked as if a dray horse had kicked her in the face.”
— p. 87
“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”
— Chapter 25 (p. 209)
“Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin’s age possess no context; one video event is much like another.”
— Chapter 3 (p. 32)
“He’s exactly what she wants. He’s the last thing she needs.”
— p. 72
“Evolution can’t be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim.”
— p. 57
“Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.”
— Chapter 29 (p. 278)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).