A Hidden Place
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2002
- Category
- Alien Contact
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780765302618
- Publish Date
- Sep 2002
- List Price
- $24.5
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Description
In the hard years of the Depression, young Travis lives with his uncle and aunt. Upstairs lives the mysterious Anna. Anna says she's going to be "changing," and she needs Travis's help...for purposes she won't explain.
Robert Charles Wilson's A Hidden Place is a science fiction tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.
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.
Editorial Reviews
“Robert Charles Wilson has produced one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction.” —The New York Times
“Exquisitely written.” —Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Wilson sets out to remind us, and possibly himself, of what there is to fall in love with in SF, and he succeeds.” —Locus
