Brute Orbits
High Crimes Call for High Punishment
It is the twenty-first century. Convicts are sentenced to asteroids that move in ever-widening solar orbits, timed to return when their terms run out. But a few ambitious administrators discover that small "errors" in velocity can rid them of selected groups altogether: the hardcore violent, the mentally defective, and especially the political dissidents. Enduring the black vise of interstellar space-time, these human rejects — men and women mixed together — create their own Darwinian societies, struggling to survive.
Back on Earth, a handful of sympathetic and curious scientists have not forgotten these lost citizens. When a technological breakthrough makes it possible to overtake these scattered asteroids, a courageous team sets out to go where none has willingly gone before. What they discover in these "brute orbits" is both provocative and moving — a startling vision of humanity you will never forget.
- Author
- George Zebrowski
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- HarperPrism
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-105807-3
- EAN
- 9780061058073
- Genres
- fiction
- Release date
- 1999
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