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Asteroid prisons are created to rid the Earth of convicts, political prisoners, and lunatics, housing both men and women who create their own societies, but over time, attitudes change toward the penal system, and a group of social scientists sets out to discover what has become of these habitats.
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"Zebrowski's latest is an impressive... look at the penal system of the future. The author explores this... through a number of credible characters, and demonstrates once again our ability to commit heinous crimes in the name of the 'common good.' Brute Orbits is highly recommended, but not if you're already depressed." --Don D'Ammassa, _Science Fiction Chronicle_ "SF has long had an interest in how future societies would punish their malefactors and malcontents. From Heinlein's Coventry to Cordwainer Smith's Shayol, from Sheckley's Omega to Dick's Alphane Moon, many fine writers have envisioned a variety of schemes whereby the marriage of technology and law would open up new penal possibilities. Now one of SF's most visionary authors, George Zebrowski, gives us _Brute Orbits_, the latest novel in this lineage, and it proves to be a worthy sucessor and innovator... By focusing on the criminals and their... living conditions, Zebrowski succeeds in rubbing our noses in the harsh actions any society under assault by sociopaths must undertake in order to survive. Zebrowski has always by temperament been inclined to follow the transcendentalism of Clarke and Stapleton and Blish, and this new book is no exception. His language and his perspective are elegaically lofty... Zebrowski never ceases to invest his individual characters with three-dimensional roundness... Startling and sobering, Zebrowski's provocative novel should prick the consciences of all readers, as he slices open the veins of prisoners and wardens alike, revealing the identical blood that flows on either side of the bars." -- Paul DiFilippo, _Asimov's_
"Zebrowski's latest evokes the pioneering SF of social philosopher Olaf Stapledon... boldly speculative" --_Publishers Weekly_
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. George Zebrowski. Brute Orbits. NY: Harper Prism, September 1998, 1st. edition, 1st. printing, (xii), 222 pp. *** The 21st. Century witnesses the expansion of business and commerce into the further reaches of the Solar System, especially the Asteroid Belt. A leading growth industry is prisons. Corrections officials discover that transporting convicts to asteroids where thay can work at mining for free eliminates many headaches. Orbits for some asteroids are "adjusted" so that the prisoners will have served their terms by the time the asteroid returns to an accessible distance from Earth. Corrupt officials engineer slight "errors" in orbits that cast the asteroids in orbits that will far exceed any human life span. These are the brute orbits. Years later an improved propulsion system allows social scientists to catch up to the asteroids where they encounter societies descended from the original convicts. The color illustrated dust jacket (not price clipped) is in a clear protective. This book is in my inventory and the image is of this particular item. *** Bound in black paper boards and a black cloth spine with yellow lettering. There is a remainder mark on the bottom of the text block, otherwise the book is in Fine condition in a Fine jacket. *** 9.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches. Seller Inventory # 5078