Macrolife (38 page)

All literature, at whatever scale of observation, has been a stepback seeing effort; and we must take it as a sign of hope that we have anything like this ability, not only to look back but to gaze forward, and not just to see what is merely possible but even to make new things happen.

George Zebrowski
Delmar, New York
June 2005

George Zebrowski
'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 Stapledon's Star Maker. It'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. Zebrowski'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.