For Immediate Release Tuesday January 17 2006

Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, by George Zebrowski — 25^th Anniversary Edition

The 25^th anniversary edition of this classic science fiction masterpiece, listed as one of the 100 best science fiction novels of all time by Library Journal, is now available in a new reset edition from Pyr Books. This pioneering novel about the meaning of space habitats for human history presents spacefaring as no work did in its time, nor has done since. In Macrolife, George Zebrowski has created a dynamic and original utopian civilization.

Macrolife is presented with the original interior illustrations by Emmy Award-winning illustrator and former Star Trek Senior Illustrator/Designer Rick Sternbach, an introduction by Ian Watson, and a new afterword by the author.

"It's been years since I was so impressed. Macrolife manages an extraordinary balance between the personal and cosmic elements. Altogether a worthy successor to Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker....I'm confident that George's book is so good that it doesn't need any recommendation from me. You can quote that!" — Sir Arthur C. Clarke "George Zebrowski plays the hard SF game with the net up, keeping the concrete restraints of the real world alive in the gauzy realms of fiction." — Gregory Benford "An authority in the SF field." — Terry Carr "A writer who pushes against the boundaries of a genre and, at his best, extends their frontiers." — James Gunn "The Renaissance mind of George Zebrowski dances deftly between literary conceits and scientific concepts. Like Arthur C. Clarke, he has a rare ability to blend the cerebral kick of philosophical fiction with the cosmic sweep and sheer delight of space adventure. To read him is to discover why SF matters." — James Morrow "Zebrowski is one of those rare speculators who bases his dreams on science as well as inspiration." — Greg Bear

About George Zebrowski

George Zebrowski's forty books include novels, short fiction collections, anthologies, and a book of essays. His work has appeared in all the science fiction magazines, as well as in Omni, Nature, Popular Computing, and the Bertrand Russell Society News. Zebrowski's writing has 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. Forthcoming in May will be Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts from Golden Gryphon Press, with an introduction by Howard Waldrop.

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Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia
ISBN: 1-59102-340-8
Limited Edition Hardcover $25.00 (USA)

ISBN: 1-59102-341-6
January 2006
Trade Paperback $15.00 (USA)

Online fiction by George Zebrowski

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