Mysterium

In Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson blends science, religion, philosophy and alternate history into an intelligent, compelling work of fiction (Publishers Weekly).

In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the local residents observe strange lights coming from the laboratory. The next morning, they awake to find that their town was literally cut off from the rest of the world...and thrust into a new one

Soon the town is discovered by the bewildered leaders of this new world--at which point, the people of Two Rivers realize that they've arrived in a rigid theocracy. The authorities, known as the Bureau de la Covenance Religieuse, have ordered Linneth Stone, a young ethnologist, to analyze the arrivals and report her findings to the Lieutenant in charge.

What Linneth finds will challenge the philosophical basis of her society and lead inexorably to a struggle for power centering on the mysterious object that Two Rivers' government scientists were studying when the town slipped between worlds.

Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780765327413

About the Author

ROBERT CHARLES WILSON is one of today's most distinguished SF writers. His novel Spin won the Hugo Award. Born in California, he lives in Toronto.