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  Complete Short Fiction

  George Zebrowski

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  Title Page

  About George Zebrowski

  Pseudonyms

  “Jay Kay Klein’s biolog”

  Bibliography: Novels

  Bibliography: Serials

  Bibliography: Chapbooks

  Bibliography: Collections

  Bibliography: Omnibus

  Bibliography: Nonfiction

  Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological

  Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical

  Fiction Series

  1970

  The Water Sculptor of Station 233

  Traps

  Dark, Dark, the Dead Star

  1971

  Heathen God

  Listen Love

  1972

  The Monadic Universe

  The History Machine

  First Love, First Fear

  Fountain of Force

  1973

  Od

  Starcrossed

  Interpose

  Assassins of Air

  Parks of Rest and Culture

  Stance of Splendour

  Rope of Glass

  1974

  Adrift in Space

  The Flower That Missed the Morning

  Journey to Another Star

  Thirty-Three and One-Third

  Darkness of Day

  1975

  Weapons

  Faces Forward

  The Cliometricon

  1976

  Yellowhead

  1977

  Wayside World

  1978

  Transfigured Night

  1979

  The Word Sweep

  1981

  Fire of Spring

  Earth Around His Bones

  The Alternate

  1983

  The Falling

  The Sea of Evening

  Mirror of Minds

  1984

  The City of Thought and Steel

  The Eichmann Variations

  1985

  Gödel’s Doom

  1986

  Stooges

  The Idea Trap

  Bridge of Silence

  1987

  This Life and Later Ones

  Behind the Night

  General Jaruzelski

  1988

  Jumper

  1989

  Lesser Beasts

  Foundation’s Conscience

  1990

  Lenin in Odessa

  Lords of Imagination

  1991

  Stranger Suns (Part 1)

  Stranger Suns (Part 2)

  The Number of the Sand

  Oh, Miranda!

  Sacred Fire

  1992

  Let Time Shape

  I Walked With Fidel

  1993

  Behind the Stars (Part One)

  Behind the Stars (Part Two)

  In the Distance, and Ahead in Time

  1994

  Passing Nights

  Afternoon Ghost

  1995

  Between the Winds

  Swift Thoughts

  The Wish in the Fear

  1996

  The Soft Terrible Music

  Hell Just Over the Hill

  1999

  Shrinkers & Movers

  2000

  A Dream of Time

  The Holdouts

  The Last Science-Fiction Story of the 20th Century

  2001

  Augie

  Catch the Sleep Ship: The First Science-Fiction Story of the Century

  Wound the Wind

  2003

  Takes You Back

  The Coming of Christ the Joker

  2004

  My First World

  Nappy

  2005

  A Piano Full of Dead Spiders

  2006

  Black Pockets

  Jesus Runs

  2007

  Settlements

  2010

  Once We Were Dragons

  Two Poems

  2011

  The Cambrian

  2012

  The Standard Crisis Scenario

  Solidarity

  2013

  The Genoa Passage

  Sticky

  2014

  Lookback

  Three Sudden Murders

  Fermi’s Doubts

  The Sullen Engines

  2015

  Passerby

  Bacon’s Chicken

  Jiffy

  2016

  Woundings

  2017

  Proton

  2019

  The Fast Stuff

  2020

  Beloved Toiler

  Mindcasters

  2022

  Mr. Moto at Manzanar

  George Zebrowski was born on December 28, 1945 in Villach, Austria. He is a science fiction writer and editor who has written and edited a number of books, and is a former editor of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

  Zebrowski won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1999 for his novel Brute Orbits. Three of his short stories, “Heathen God,” “The Eichmann Variations,” and “Wound the Wind,” have been nominated for the Nebula Award, and “The Idea Trap” was nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

  He lives with author Pamela Sargent, with whom he has co-written a number of novels, including Star Trek novels.

  PSEUDONYMS

  Džordž Zebrovski

  George T. Zebrowski

  George Zebrowsky

  Georges Zebrowsky

  Jay Kay Klein’s

  biolog

  George Zebrowski

  The path to Analog is long and tortuous, dependent on for bearers who, say, missed the Titanic by a few minutes. For George Zebrowski, it took a world war run on one side by a set of madmen. George’s parents at age 14 were picked off the streets in Poland and grew up as slave laborers in Austria. Born just after WWII, he went briefly to Italy, then to England where he started school, then at six to the United States.

  Like Joseph Conrad, George became fully bilingual in English and Polish; and like Conrad, he feels that exploration of the human heart and condition is the real heart of literature, sometimes with a brilliant light and sometimes steeped in darkness. Where Conrad had been a seafarer and brought this experience to his stories, George has traveled widely through the wonders of the human exploration of science.

  It used to be, George says, that great scientists were also great writers; they caught the imagination and intelligence of the rest of mankind. Now it is up to the. philosophers of science to reach the 99 percent of humans who are not scientifically trained, but whose destinies depend on modern technologies. He has worked both in science writing and in science fiction.

  George grew up in New York City, then went to Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, where he now lives. Formally trained in philosophy, he would have pursued a career solely in this age-old discipline if it hadn’t been for a deep interest in science, especially astronomy and mathematics, and a love of literature. Praised for its correct use of mathematics, “Gödel’s Doom” reprinted from Popular Computing became the only fiction ever published in the Bertrand Russell Society’s Quarterly.

  Appearing in Analog this month for the first time, George most unusually arrives here not as a beginning writer but as a major novelist. He had started reading this magazine in 1960 and nearly had a story published in 1971. Then-editor John Campbell returned if for revision, but died before he could accept it. Always in need of stories to complete writing projects, George used this as the title story of The Monadic Universe collection. Since then, he has had contracts and obligations that directed his stories mostly to hardcover books, though nearly every science fiction magazine has printed a Zebrowski story.

  George’s serious literary presentations have been set in authentic science-fictional universes, resulting in such works as The Omega Point trilogy and the Macrolife mosaic of stories. Coming up as an addition to the latter is Cave of Stars. Back in 1976, one novel was ready for release under the title of War Stars, but an unexpected event required this to be published as Ashes and Stars. Notwithstanding, George has a real love for movies, has a fabulous collection of VCR releases, and has become an authority on cinematic SF.

  With all this, George ekes out time enough to edit story collections for major publishers and edit The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

  Originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1987

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NOVELS

  The Omega Point (1972)

  The Star Web (1975)

  Ashes and Stars (1977)

  Macrolife (1979)

  Sunspacer (1984)

  The Stars Will Speak (1985)

  Stranger Suns (1991)

  The Killing Star (1995)

  A Fury Scorned (1996)

  Heart of the Sun (1997)

  Brute Orbits (1998)

  Across the Universe (1999)

  Cave of Stars (1999)

  Dyson Sphere (1999)

  Garth of Izar (2003)

  Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia (2006)

  Empt
ies (2009)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  SERIALS

  Stranger Suns, Amazing Stories, January-March 1991

  Behind the Stars, Amazing Stories, June-July 1993

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHAPBOOKS

  A Silent Shout (1979)

  Adrift in Space (1979)

  The Firebird (1979)

  Behind the Stars (2012)

  Mirror of Minds (2012)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  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)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  OMNIBUS

  The Omega Point Trilogy (1983)

  The Sunspacers Trilogy (1996)

  Three in Time: Classic Novels of Time Travel (1997)

  Three in Space: Classic Novels of Space Travel (1998)

  Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories / Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories (2012)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NONFICTION

  Beneath the Red Star: Studies on International Science Fiction (1996)

  Talks with the Masters (2018)

  SHORT FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHRONOLOGICAL

  1970

  The Water Sculptor of Station 233, Infinity One, 1970

  Traps, If, March 1970

  Dark, Dark, the Dead Star, If, July/August, July 1970

  1971

  Heathen God, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1971

  Listen, Love, New Worlds Quarterly 2, September 1971

  1972

  The Monadic Universe, Infinity Three, 1972

  The History Machine, New Worlds Quarterly 3, January 1972

  First Love, First Fear, Strange Bedfellows, November 1972

  Fountain of Force, Infinity Four, November 1972

  1973

  Od, Omega, 1973

  Starcrossed, Eros in Orbit, 1973

  Interpose, Infinity Five, May 1973

  Assassins of Air, Future City, July 1973

  Parks of Rest and Culture, Saving World, July 1973

  Stance of Splendour, New Worlds 6, September 1973

  Rope of Glass, Two Views of Wonder, December 1973

  1974

  Adrift in Space, Adrift in Space and Other Stories, 1974

  The Flower That Missed the Morning, The Killer Plants and Other Stories, 1974

  Journey to Another Star, Journey to Another Star and Other Stories, 1974

  Thirty-Three and One-Third, The Long Night of Waiting and Other Stories, 1974

  Darkness of Day, Continuum 3, December 1974

  1975

  Faces Forward, Dystopian Visions, 1975

  Weapons, Dystopian Visions, 1975

  The Cliometricon, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, May 1975

  1976

  Yellowhead, New Constellations: An Anthology of Tomorrow’s Mythologies, November 1976

  1977

  Wayside World, A World Named Cleopatra, March 1977

  1978

  Transfigured Night, Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future, May 1978

  1979

  The Word Sweep, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1979

  1981

  Fire of Spring, Chillers, July 1981

  Earth Around His Bones, Chillers, September 1981

  The Alternate, Chillers, November 1981

  1983

  The Falling, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1983

  The Sea of Evening, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1983

  Mirror of Minds, The Omega Point Trilogy, November 1983

  1984

  The City of Thought and Steel, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1984

  The Eichmann Variations, Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time, November 1984

  1985

  Gödel’s Doom, Popular Computing, February 1985

  1986

  Stooges, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1986

  The Idea Trap, Universe 16, November 1986

  Bridge of Silence, Aboriginal SF, December 1986

  1987

  This Life and Later Ones, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1987

  Behind the Night, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1987

  General Jaruzelski at the Zoo, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1987

  1988

  Jumper, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1988

  1989

  Lesser Beasts, Amazing Stories, January 1989

  Foundation’s Conscience, Foundation’s Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov, September 1989

  1990

  Lenin in Odessa, Alternate Heroes, January 1990

  Lords of Information, Science Fiction Review #1, Spring 1990

  1991

  Stranger Suns (Part 1), Amazing Stories, January 1991

  Stranger Suns (Part 2), Amazing Stories, March 1991

  The Number of the Sand, Amazing Stories, August 1991

  Oh, Miranda!, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1991

  Sacred Fire, There Won’t Be War, November 1991

  1992

  Let Time Shape, Amazing Stories, March 1992

  I Walked with Fidel, Amazing Stories, November 1992

  1993

  Behind the Stars (Part One), Amazing Stories, June 1993

  Behind the Stars (Part Two), Amazing Stories, July 1993

  In the Distance, and Ahead in Time, Amazing Stories, November 1993

  1994

  Passing Nights, Amazing Stories, Winter 1994

  Afternoon Ghost, Return to the Twilight Zone, December 1994

  1995

  Between the Winds, Amazing Stories, Winter 1995

  Swift Thoughts, Amazing Stories: The Anthology, May 1995

  The Wish in the Fear, More Phobias, July 1995

  1996

  The Soft Terrible Music, Castle Fantastic, March 1996

  Hell Just Over the Hill, Phantoms of the Night, June 1996

  1999

  Shrinkers & Movers, Amazing Stories, Winter 1999

  2000

  A Dream of Time, Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science, April 2000

  The Holdouts, Nature, December 14, 2000

  The Last Science-Fiction Story of the 20th Century, Interzone, December 2000

  2001

  Augie, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2001

  Catch the Sleep Ship: The First Science-Fiction Story of the Century, Interzone, January 2001

  Wound the Wind, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2001

  2003

  Takes You Back, The Silver Gryphon, May 2003

  The Coming of Christ the Joker, Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium, September 2003

  2004

  My First World, Microcosms, January 2004

  Nappy, Conqueror Fantastic, April 2004

  2005

  A Piano Full of Dead Spiders, Amazing Stories, March 2005

  2006

  Black Pockets, Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts, February 2006

  Jesus Runs, Future Americas, August 2006

  2007

  Settlements, Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, February 2007

  2010

  Once We Were Dragons, World Literature Today, May/June, May 2010

  Two Poems, World Literature Today, May/June, May 2010

  2011

  The Cambrian, Nature, March 10, 2011

  2012

  The Standard Crisis Scenario, Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories / Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories, July 2012

  Solidarity, Nature, September 27, 2012

  2013

  The Genoa Passage, Interzone, January/February, January 2013

  Sticky, Nature, March 28, 2013

  2014

  Lookback, Nature, March 27, 2014

  Three Sudden Murders, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #14, July/August, July 2014

  Fermi’s Doubts, Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox, August 2014

  The Sullen Engines, Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, August 2014

  2015

  Passersby, Nature Physics, January 2015

  Bacon’s Chicken, World Literature Today, March/April, March 2015

  Jiffy, Nature, June 11, 2015

  2016

  Woundings, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February, January 2016

  2017

  Proton, Nature, March 9, 2017

  2019

  The Fast Stuff, Nature, April 18, 2019