num_pages: 315
description: Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory--twenty years in the future.Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok-obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note? Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a final battle with the future. The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
language: English
title: The Chronoliths
titlecomplete: The Chronoliths
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel, Dystopia, Near Future, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 5323
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work), awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel), awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix Aurora Award
category: Best Long-Form Work in English
publisher: Tor Science Fiction