Robert Charles Wilson

In the year 2015 in an alternate reality, eighteen-year-old Cassie Iverson shares a dangerous secret with a small group of people. She knows that the peace and prosperity her United States has enjoyed since the Great Armistice of 1914 has been engineered by an extraterrestrial entity that has been farming humans for unknown purposes. The members of this group have worked hard not to draw attention to themselves, but it no longer matters because the...

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.

"One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives." "The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk - a heat source, rather than an astronomical object....