Macrolife (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: George Zebrowski
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: 2021, 3000, and the far future
- Setting: Earth, the space colony Asterome, and throughout the cosmos
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Twenty-first century, Identity, Earth, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions, Clones or cloning
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
The Bulero family has grown wealthy and powerful by marketing an immensely strong, though poorly understood, substance called bulerite, used to construct massive habitations on Earth and in space. Bulerite suddenly proves to be unstable, and bulerite structures begin exploding. These disasters trigger a nuclear war on Earth and the emergence of a strange force field that engulfs Earth and makes it uninhabitable.
Surviving members of the Bulero family—matriarch Janet, philosophy professor Sam, and heir Richard—take refuge in a space colony, the hollowed-out...
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