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

 The 25th 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. 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 realizes that the only hope for humanity lies in macrolife--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 civilizations takes place.

Reviews

?One of science fiction's most visionary - and underacknowledged - masterworks, George Zebrowski's Macrolife, has been fatefully reissued by Pyr. This 1979 classic about mobile, self-reproducing space habitats elevating humanity to a new evolutionary level is just as wildly thought-provoking today as it was almost three decades ago.... Science fiction fans who are tired of what Zebrowski calls 'print television' - novels with little or no intellectual substance, written like they were made-for-TV movies - should definitely check out this sweeping and profound look at the long-term future of humankind - a work described by Arthur C. Clarke as 'one of the few books I intend to read again.' Looking for brain food? Here's a gourmet feast from one of the genre's most sagacious writers.? - B&N?s Explorations Newsletter

?LJ dubbed the Nebula-winning author's 1979 sf volume one of the genre's 100 best novels. This edition sports new illustrations, a revised intro by Ian Watson, and a new afterword by Zebrowski.? -Library Journal

"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

 "I recommend this book heartily to all readers . . . I would rather have one Macrolife than a dozen sickly novels of the species that currently dominates the American SF scene." - Brian Stableford

"I'm confident that George's book is so good it doesn't need any recommendation from me. You can quote that!" - Arthur C. Clarke

 The Easton Press published it in its ?Masterpieces of Science Fiction? series.