Brute Orbits - Softcover

Zebrowski, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061058076 ISBN 13: 9780061058073

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

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. Reprint.

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offers some excerpts from review from SF trade periodicals.
"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_

Synopsis:

This innovative novel is about the future of crime and punishment in which conflicted hearts and minds find new ways to war over the great prize of justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0061058076
• ISBN 13: 9780061058073
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336