George Zebrowski Knihy

Subtitled "A Mobile Utopia," this pioneering novel explores the significance of space habitats in human history, presenting a unique vision of spacefaring. It depicts a dynamic utopian civilization that rises above historical failures. Set in 2021, the story follows the Bulero family, owners of a wealthy corporation. During a family reunion, an industrial accident thrusts the corporation into crisis, leading to global disaster. As they are vilified, the Buleros escape to a space colony, where young Richard Bulero discovers that humanity's salvation lies in macrolife—mobile, self-replicating habitats. A millennium later, these communities have expanded beyond the solar system, leading to conflicts with natural planets. John Bulero, a cloned descendant, falls in love with a woman from a natural world, confronting the harsh realities of her life. When his mobile community returns to the solar system, a tense clash of civilizations ensues. One hundred billion years later, as macrolife proliferates, it faces the impending demise of nature. John Bulero, now changed and seeking individuality, grapples with the universe's potential collapse into a black hole. Inspired by the prospects of space settlements and human aspirations, this visionary work offers a profound speculation on the future of humanity and nature, enriched with vivid imagery and memorable characters.

Features a blend of established and up and coming science fiction writers, including works, by Daniel Perleman, James Gunn, Robert Reed, Marc Laidlaw, Chad Oliver, and Pamela Sargent

Features a blend of established and up and coming science fiction writers, including works, by Daniel Perleman, James Gunn, Robert Reed, Marc Laidlaw, Chad Oliver, and Pamela Sargent

Explore the solar system and beyond with George Zebrowski's Sunspacers Trilogy: Sunspacers, The Stars Will Speak, and Behind the Stars. In the 21st century, the pioneers who tame Earth's sister planets--the Sunspacers--venture into the frontiers of deep space. From the scorching mines of Mercury to the icy voids beyond Pluto's orbit, these visionaries develop Earth's sunspace and spearhead humanity's expansion into the galaxy.

With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the USS Enterprise-D has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archaeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed – unless another solution can be found.With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.

6599 A.D. The war between the Earth Federation and the Herculean Empire had been over for more than three centuries. The planet in the Hercules Globular Cluster was a cinder; the few descendants of the surviving Herculeans lived on Myraa's World, half a galaxy away, in what seemed to be a religious commune. But on an unnamed planet, deep within the Hercules Cluster, two survivors, father and son, gather their resources and plan a reign of terror against Federation worlds. But the woman Myraa has a different vision--one which excludes empires and warring armies. Subtly, she strives to shape events toward a different end. Rising to one of the most unusual climaxes in recent fantastic literature, this novel of chase and vengeance depicts a colorful, poetic future which is struggling to overcome its past. Filled with striking twists and vivid ideas, this is space opera at its most modern.

Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the USS Enterprise has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy – or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg.But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction – can even the Starship Enterprise save them all?

The Hawking left Earth during the 21st century on a one-way mission to colonize a distant world. Due to the relativistic effects of pre-warp travel, its crew has aged only thirty years while two centuries passed outside the ship. When the starship Enterprise comes to the rescue of the malfunctioning Hawking, the colonists find themselves thrust into a universe and an era that has left them behind.Captain Kirk intends to help the colonists adjust as best he can, but the task is not a simple one. The newcomers are survivors of a more violent, more paranoid time – and they have brought old suspicions, and an ancient weapon of mass destruction, into a world of unexpected challenges and dangers.

Scientists discover the fantastic starship of a forgotten culture under the frozen ground of Antarctica, and while exploring the vessel, they discover portals to an infinite number of variant Earths