Book description
Ranging from hard science fiction ("Godel's Doom") to
alternate history ("Lenin in Odessa") to first alien contact
("Bridge of Silence"), this collection delineates one of the
unique voices writing science fiction today. In the tradition of
Stanislaw Lem, each of the stories in this collection confronts the big
questions of human existence. The detailed notes that follow each story
provide insight into the author's influences and include commentary from
other noteworthy authors in the field. George Zebrowski's nearly forty
books include novels, short fiction collections, anthologies, and a book
of essays. Science fiction writer Greg Bear calls him one of those rare
speculators who bases his dreams on science as well as inspiration, and
the late Terry Carr, one of the most influential science fiction editors
of recent years, described him as an authority in the SF field.
Zebrowski has published more than seventy works of short fiction and
more than a hundred and forty articles and essays, and has written about
science for Omni Magazine. His short fiction and essays have appeared in
Amazing Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Science
Fiction Age, Nature, the Bertrand Russell Society News, and many other
publications.
