Stranger Suns

by George Zebrowski

Book Overview

The orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553291750
• ISBN13: 9780553291759
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

an amazing discovery---sci fi for adults

As a novel, it's terrific---the story hurtles along, never predictable, with characters of depth and moment, and above all, the writing is a cut above. The science is cutting edge, the alternate world elements are fascinating. The combination of storytelling and sci fi is breathtaking and exciting. But the philosophical concerns---and this book has them---are at the heart of it, and they are the concerns of characters in midlife, looking back on their dashed and persistent dreams, their frustrations and failures, and examining the history and nature of humanity from this perspective. The book's protagonist, Juan Obrion, is a kind of Raymond Chandler character--an idealistic but disillusioned detective of cosmic mysteries and the mysteries of human nature. For me, all this gives this book an added dimension, a depth in character and in general concern not often present in any novel these days, let alone science fiction. I don't think you have to be older to enjoy this novel, but it helps to understand the concerns of the main character from that perspective. This is a novel that H.G. Wells would love---it creates a believable future, but uses it for more than fun and games. It's an inner and outer journey to the edge, and even if Obrion starts out with a Huxley/Darwin idea of human nature fated to be limited by what it needed for its own evolution, he ends up with a more hopeful one. Readers of Zebrowski's MACROLIFE and BRUTE ORBITS will recognize this universe, taken this time to a kind of ultimate. It's been an amazing experience finding someone this good who's been writing this long with this depth and these concerns. I've come to Zebrowski late, but I'm sure glad not too late.