Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, Limited Edition - Hardcover

Zebrowski, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591023408 ISBN 13: 9781591023401

Publisher: Pyr Books, 2006

Synopsis

Subtitled "A Mobile Utopia", this pioneering novel, about the meaning of space habitats for human history, presents space faring as no work did in its time, and since. This is a utopian novel like no other, presenting a dynamic utopian civilisation that transcends the failures of our history. Epic in scope, "Macrolife" opens in the year 2021. The Bulero family owns one of Earth's richest corporations. As the Buleros gather for a reunion at the family mansion, an industrial accident plunges the corporation into a crisis, which eventually brings the world around them to the brink of disaster. Vilified, the Buleros flee to a space colony where young Richard Bulero gradually realises that the only hope for humanity lies in macro life - mobile, self-reproducing space habitats. A millennium later, these mobile communities have left our sunspace and multiplied. Conflicts with natural planets arise. John Bulero, a cloned descendant of the twenty-first century Bulero clan, falls in love with a woman from a natural world and experiences the harshness of her way of life. He rediscovers his roots when his mobile returns to the solar system, and a tense confrontation of three civilisations takes place. One hundred billion years later, macro life, now as numerous as the stars, faces the impending death of nature. Regaining his individuality but falling away from a highly evolved macro life, a strangely changed John Bulero struggles to see beyond a collapse of the universe into a giant black hole. Inspired by the possibilities of space settlements, projections of biology and cosmology, and basic human longings, "Macrolife" is a visionary speculation on the long-term future of human and natural history. Filled with haunting images and memorable characters, this is a vivid and brilliant work.

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About the Author

George ZebrowskiÂ’s forty books include novels, short-fiction collections, anthologies, and a book of essays. His works have appeared in all the science fiction magazines, as well as in Omni, Nature, Popular Computing, and the Bertrand Russell Society News. Arthur C. Clarke described Macrolife as "a worthy successor to Olaf StapledonÂ’s Star Maker. ItÂ’s been years since I was so impressed. One of the few books I intend to read again." Library Journal listed Macrolife as one of the one hundred best science fiction novels, and The Easton Press published it in its "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Cave of Stars, a recent novel, also belongs to the Macrolife mosaic. ZebrowskiÂ’s works have been translated into eight languages; his short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Brute Orbits, an uncompromising novel about a future penal system, was honored with the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pyr Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1591023408
• ISBN 13: 9781591023401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 385