Mysterium: Robert Charles Wilson

In the hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. The people of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own: a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something has gone terribly wrong, and it's something to do with the mysterious government facility on the outskirts of town. Schoolteacher Dexter Graham has lost his family and has nothing left that he values; twelve year old Clifford Stockton is driven by a child's curiosity and courage; Evelyn Woodward is torn between obedience to the state and loyalty to her friends; and for physicist Howard Poole, haunted by the memory of his brilliant enigmatic uncle, the only way to escape the nightmare is to journey deeper into fear. Cover art by Ron Wood.