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by: Robert Charles Wilson
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553569537
ISBN: 0553569538
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: February 01, 1995
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date: February 01, 1995
Sales Rank: 958863
Studio: Spectra
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Awakening in a strange world of repression, rationing, and fear, the citizens of small Michigan town Two Rivers, victims of a mysterious government plot, band together in a dangerous quest to discover what has gone wrong. Reprint. LJ. PW. NYT.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Another really good novel from Robert Charles Wilson
Mysterium is one of Wilson's earlier works, and focuses on how the issue of a parallel universe. He has created a nice little town that is thrown into another world, yet one that is not too far removed from our world. As a reader who has read almost all of his other works, I would rate this as one of his stronger works. I almost wish he would revisit this universe again!
Rating:  - Very disappointing - do not recommend this one.
I like Wilson's work, particularly the later books like Chronoliths and Spin. This earlier work is clearly not up to par with Wilson's more recent writing. The book is filled with wooden characters that you have a hard time caring what happens to and dated references to newfangled technology - like CELL PHONES and OCR SCANNING SOFTWARE. This just isn't a good book.
Rating:  - Unique
Mysterium is a type of alternative history I've never read before. Imagine if Gnosticism had won out over orthodox Christianity, to the point that Gnosticism itself was considered to be truly orthodox, and what we know as Christianity a heresy? Wilson is to be congratulated for bringing in a new idea into the alternate history genre, something beyond a rehashed Civil War plot and really dealving into religious possibilities that can change the world.
Unfortunately, the characters are ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent parallel universe adventure
Mysterium_ by Robert Charles Wilson is a very well done, engrossing earlier work of the author's, one that I don't believe has gotten anywhere near the attention of his later works (such as _Darwinia_, _Bios_, and _The Chronoliths_). It is also unfortunately out of print, though there are a great many used copies out there at relatively cheap prices.
_Mysterium_ is a book one could place in the "island in the sea of time" sub-genre of books on alternate history and parallel universes, ... Read More
Rating: - Mysterious Transportation
The books of Robert Charles Wilson, while cloaked in the familiar trappings of science fiction, are without exception quiet novels of character, of people forced to adapt to new situations and to remake themselves in a new world where the rules have been turned upside down. His work contains many of the same qualities of Roger Zelazny's ealy short stories, which were often considered weak on ideas but were written with such vigor and style that they forged his reputation back in the late 1960s.
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