The Chronoliths

<b>"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction . . .</b><i><b>The Chronoliths</b></i><b> stands with his best." — </b><i><b>The New York Times</b></i><br /><br />One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory . . .sixteen years in the future.<br /><br />As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery—and a final battle with the future.<br /><br /><i>The Chronoliths</i> is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.<br /><br />"Superb." — <i>Publishers Weekly</i> (Starred Review)