Brute Orbits

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.

George Zebrowski's thirty-five books have been published in more than half a dozen languages. His most recent novels are Brute Orbits, The Killing Star, written with scientist and author Charles Pellegrino, and Stranger Suns, chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Upcoming is Skylife (coedited with scientist-author Gregory Benford), an anthology chronicling this century's fascination with space habitats in story and science. Zebrowski's classic novel of space habitats, Macrolife, was chosen by Library Journal as one of its one hundred "must read" works of science fiction.