George Zebrowski

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George Zebrowski (born Jerzy Tadeus Zebrowski on December 28, 1945 in Villach , Austria ) is an American science fiction writer and editor. He lives with the author Pamela Sargent .

Life

Zebrowski is the son of Anthony Zebrowski and Anna, née Popovicz. His parents came from Poland and had fled the Nazis. Born in Austria, Zebrowski came to the United States via Italy, France and England in 1951, where he grew up in the South Bronx . He studied at Binghamton University from 1964 to 1969 and then worked as an editor at the Binghamton Evening Press and as a lecturer. From 1970 to 1975 and from 1983 to 1991 he was editor of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America with Pamela Sargent . In between he worked for Crown Publishing in New York .

Zebrowski began publishing science fiction stories in 1970, first two short stories with Jack Dann in If magazine , then The Water Sculptor of Station 233 , which appeared in the anthology Infinity One . By 2017, Zebrowski had written around 90 short stories. In 1972 Zebrowski's first novel The Omega Point (German as legacy of doom ) was published. The title refers to the omega point , the end and destination point of evolution in Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy . Together with Ashes and Stars (1977) and the longer story Mirror of Minds (1983), the novel was expanded into a trilogy , which was published in a revised version in 1983 as an anthology. In Omega Point , humans win an interstellar war. The survivors of the almost wiped out opponents seek revenge and want to use the omega point . It turns out, however, that this is not an instrument of vengeance, but a means of transcending vengeance through compassion.

The two following novels Macrolife (1979) and Stranger Suns (1991) then established Zebrowski as the author of literarily ambitious space opera operating on a cosmic scale , which has often been compared to Stapledon . Robert Reginald thinks (slightly ironic) that Zebrowski (like Stapledon) paints his fictions with a broad brush, adding and wiping away entire galaxies with one stroke.

In addition to these ambitious projects Zebroski, together with Pamela Sargent a series of Star Trek - Tie-ins written and edited several anthologies, including the five volumes of the Synergy series, four of which have been translated into German.

In 1999 Zebrowski won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Brute Orbits . His short stories Heathen God , The Eichmann Variations and Wound the Wind were nominated for the Nebula Award , The Idea Trap was nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award . In 2000 he and Pamela Sargent received the Service to SFWA Award for special merits.

A premature legacy of his manuscripts is in the Paskow Science Fiction Collection of Temple University in Philadelphia .

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Cliometricon (short stories)
  • The Cliometricon (1975)
  • The Number of the Sand (1991)
  • Let Time Shape (1992)
Macrolife
  • 1 Macrolife (1979)
  • 2 Cave of Stars (1999)
Omega Point
  • 1 Ashes and Stars (1977)
    • German: ash and stars. Translated by Thomasschichtel. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 21144, 1981, ISBN 3-404-21144-8 .
  • 2 The Omega Point (1972)
    • German: Legacy of Doom. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Paperback # 21035, 1973, ISBN 3-404-00188-5 .
  • 3 Mirror of Minds (1983, short story)
  • The Omega Point Trilogy (1983, collective edition of 1–3)
    • English: The Omega Point Trilogy. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5298, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08558-2 .
Bernal One
  • 1 Sunspacer (1984)
  • 2 The Stars Will Speak (1985)
  • 3 Behind the Stars (1993, short story)
  • The Sunspacers Trilogy (1996, collective edition of 1–3)
Star Trek

Starship Enterprise :

  • Heart of the Sun (1997, with Pamela Sargent)
  • Across the Universe (1999, with Pamela Sargent)
  • Garth of Izar (2003, with Pamela Sargent)

Starship Enterprise - The Next Century :

  • 43 A Fury Scorned (1996, with Pamela Sargent)
  • 50 Dyson Sphere (1999, with Charles Pellegrino)
Novels
  • The Star Web (1975)
  • Stranger Suns (1991)
    • German: Stranger suns. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5153, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07770-9 .
  • The Killing Star (1995, with Charles Pellegrino)
  • Brute Orbits (1998)
  • Empties (2009)
Collections
  • The Monadic Universe (1977)
  • Swift Thoughts (2002)
  • In the Distance, and Ahead in Time (2002)
  • Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts (2006)
  • Decimated (2012, with Jack Dann )
Anthologies (as editor)
  • Tomorrow Today (1975)
  • Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs (1975, with Thomas N. Scortia )
  • Faster Than Light (1976, with Jack Dann)
    • German: Twelve times faster than light. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special # 24101, 1987, ISBN 3-404-24101-0 .
  • The Best of Thomas N. Scortia (1981)
  • Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science (1983, with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg )
  • Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000, with Gregory Benford )
  • Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke (2010, with Gregory Benford)

Nebula Awards:

  • Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
  • Nebula Awards 21 (1986)
  • Nebula Awards 22 (1988)

Synergy:

  • Synergy: New Science Fiction # 1 (1987)
    • German: Synergy 1. Translated by Kurt Bacharz. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4815, 1991, ISBN 3-453-05004-5 .
  • Synergy: New Science Fiction # 2 (1988)
    • German: Synergy 2. Translated by Birgit Bess-Bohusch. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4861, 1992, ISBN 3-453-05383-4 .
  • Synergy: New Science Fiction # 3 (1989)
    • German: Synergy 3. Translated by Barbara Heidkamp. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4927, 1992, ISBN 3-453-05848-8 .
  • Synergy: New Science Fiction # 4 (1989)
    • German: Synergy 4. Translated by Yoma Cap. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5042, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06612-X .
  • Synergy SF: New Science Fiction (2004)
Short stories
  • The Water Sculptor (1970, also as The Water Sculptor of Station 233 )
  • Traps (1970, with Jack Dann)
  • Dark, Dark, the Dead Star (1970, with Jack Dann)
  • Heathen God (1971)
    • German: The God of the Gentiles. Translated by Leni Sobez. In: Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (Ed.): Good news from the Vatican and other "Nebula" prize stories 1. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6721), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6721-0 . Also called: the pagan god. Translated by Andreas Brandhorst . In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Science Fiction: Part Two. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4517, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02774-4 .
  • Listen, Love (1971, with Jack Dann)
  • First Love, First Fear (1972)
  • The History Machine (1972)
  • The Monadic Universe (1972, with Gerald Hull)
  • Fountain of Force (1972, with Grant Carrington)
  • Od (1973, with Jack Dann)
  • Parks of Rest and Culture (1973)
  • Stance of Splendor (1973)
  • Starcrossed (1973)
  • Interpose (1973)
  • Assassins of Air (1973)
  • Rope of Glass (1973)
  • Adrift in Space (1974)
  • Darkness of Day ( The Night of the Storm # 3, 1974, with Pamela Sargent)
  • Journey to Another Star (1974)
  • The Flower That Missed the Morning (1974, with Jack Dann)
  • Thirty-Three and One-Third (1974, with Jack Dann)
  • Faces Forward (1975, with Jack Dann)
  • Weapons (1975, with Pamela Sargent)
  • Yellowhead (1976, with Jack Dann)
  • Wayside World (1977)
  • Transfigured Night (1978)
  • The Word Sweep (1979)
  • Fire of Spring (1981)
  • The Falling (1983, with Pamela Sargent)
  • The Sea of ​​Evening (1983)
  • The City of Thought and Steel (1984)
  • The Eichmann Variations (1984)
  • Godel's Doom (1985)
  • The Idea Trap (1986)
  • Stooges (1986)
  • Bridge of Silence (1986)
  • This Life and Later Ones (1987)
  • Behind the Night (1987)
  • General Jaruzelski at the Zoo (1987)
  • Jumper (1988)
  • Foundation's Conscience (1989)
  • Lesser Beasts (1989)
  • Lords of Information (1990)
  • Lenin in Odessa (1990)
  • Oh, Miranda! (1991, with Charles Pellegrino)
  • Sacred Fire (1991)
  • I Walked with Fidel (1992)
  • In the Distance, and Ahead in Time (1993)
  • Afternoon Ghost (1994, with Jack Dann)
  • Passing Nights (1994)
  • Between the Winds (1995)
  • Swift Thoughts (1995)
  • The Wish in the Fear (1995)
  • Hell Just Over the Hill (1996)
  • The Soft Terrible Music (1996)
  • Shrinkers & Movers (1999)
  • Cave of Stars (excerpt) (1999)
  • A Dream of Time (2000)
  • The Last Science-Fiction Story of the 20th Century (2000)
  • The Holdouts (2000)
  • Augie (2001)
    • German: The deaths of artificial intelligences. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): On the road to Oodnadatta. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 6380, 2001.
  • Catch the Sleep Ship: The First Science-Fiction Story of the Century (2001)
  • Wound the Wind (2001)
  • Takes You Back (2003)
  • The Coming of Christ the Joker (2003)
  • My First World (2004)
  • Nappy (2004)
  • A Piano Full of Dead Spiders (2005)
  • To the Universe Station (2006)
  • Black Pockets (2006)
  • Earth Around His Bones (2006)
  • The Alternate (2006)
  • Settlements (2007)
  • Jesus Runs (2008)
  • Odyssey's End (2010)
  • Once We Were Dragons (2011)
  • The Cambrian (2011)
  • The Standard Crisis Scenario (2012, with Jack Dann)
  • Solidarity (2012)
  • The Genoa Passage (2013)
  • Sticky (2013)
  • Lookback (2014)
  • Fermi's Doubts (2014)
  • The Sullen Engines (2014)
  • Passersby (2015)
  • Jiffy (2015, with Charles Pellegrino)
  • Woundings (2016)
  • Proton (2017, with Charles Pellegrino)
Non-fiction
  • Beneath the Red Star: Studies on International Science Fiction (1996)
  • Talks with the Masters (2018)
Autobiography
  • Perfecting Visions, Slaying Cynics: The Life and Times of George Zebrowski (1989, with Jeffrey M. Elliot)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "George Zebrowski paints his fictive vistas with the brush of eons, adding and subtracting galaxies with a single great stroke." Robert Reginald: Zebrowski, George . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. Chicago 1991, p. 905.
personal data
SURNAME Zebrowski, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zebrowski, Jerzy Tadeus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach