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Praise for Robert Charles Wilson
"In his quiet way, Robert Charles Wilson has produced one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction."
—The New York Times
"Wilson sets out to remind us, and possibly himself, of what there is to fall in love with in SF, and he succeeds."
—Locus
and for The Chronoliths
"Wilson is a master of character development, comparable to the late Theodore Sturgeon....This superb novel, combining Wilson's trademark well-developed characters and fine prose with stunning high-tech physics, should strongly appeal to connoisseurs of quality science fiction."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Wilson's writing is assured.... Satisfaction lingers even after the last bit of suspense fades away."
—Toronto Star
"If you read science fiction for its scientific extrapolations, then there's much here to satisfy. If, like me, you read the genre for its examinations of human lives in a crucible, then The Chronoliths also delivers the goods."
—Nalo Hopkinson
Robert Charles Wilson continues to fascinate and delight. I can't think of another science fiction writer who understands the strengths of the genre so well and who works with such confidence within its elastic boundaries. Blind Lake is a first-contact-with-aliens story that revolves around a group of humans whose lives, like those of many of Wilson's characters, are seriously askew. — Gerald Jonas
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Jeffrey Walker
reviewed Blind Lake on April 16, 2008
Blind Lake
This is an odd but oddly likeable book. I read it in one sitting... so it was clearly engrossing, but engrossing in a sort of detached way. I think that Robert Charles Wilson is one of those writers who becomes, at least for a while, the principal character(s) he writes about, and the principal characters (Tess, Marguerite, Chris, the Subject) in Blind Lake are all emotionally disconnected from the world about them. As a result, Wilson seems to have written the book as one of his characters would have written it... in a slightly distanced style.
It is not a great book, but I think that it has no aspirations to be so -- this is a piece of chamber music rather than a symphony. It is, however, a very good book, imaginative, reasonably well plotted, with interesting characters and interpersonal dynamics, thought-provoking, and (best of all) creating moments of wonder.
It was let down in several small ways by its editor (how can the back-of-the-book blurb use different names from those in the book?), but that is nitpicking.
Overall I liked Blind Lake quite a bit (I'm English by birth, so be alert for understatement), am glad to have read it, and will read other books by Wilson. That's worth four stars in my library.
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