Ever since devoting himself exclusively to science fiction in 1970, George Zebrowski has proven a promising and original new voice on the current science-fiction scene, publishing more than thirty stories, articles, and essays, as well as several novels. He has also edited a number of anthologies and lectured at various colleges, including the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied philosophy from 1964 to 1969 and taught a science-fiction course in 1971. Besides writing extensively, Zebrowski has been active in a number of science-fiction organizations, and from 1970 to 1975 he edited the Bulletin of SFWA. He is a diligent and serious writer who is not afraid to tackle difficult problems of philosophy, technology, and socio-biology and to analyze their impact on human beings. He is able to invest even the most abstruse speculations or bizarre situations with human appeal.

Born in Austria of Polish refugees whom the Nazis captured for...