Author: George Zebrowski
George Zebrowski is an award-winning novelist, story writer, poet, essayist, editor, and lecturer, with work in Nature and World Literature Today , among many other publications.
Damned Truths
“‘The atomic bomb is not an inhuman weapon,’ stated General Leslie Groves, who headed the Manhattan Project.”
Bully’s Justice
“. . . The Sherrill decision was based in part on the Doctrine of Discovery, one of the rare principles of American law that came not from English common law or from the pen of some Enlightenment philosopher but rather from the Vatican.”
A Sense of Something in Him
C.M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary, by Mark Rich (Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2010, 9780786443932) 439 pp. Paper, $39.95. Cyril M. Kornbluth, born in New York City in 1923, was educated at City College and the University of Chicago; received a Bronze Star for …
The Penny Level
As he watched his blood flow through a tube into a bottle, He thought of a saved life enforcing a foreign policy, with no way to avoid the thought. A married life goes home, then out again to finally die on a mission of empire. But the blood donors, the tax payers, the voters are …
A Tragedy and a Continuing Embarassment, The Last Train from Hiroshima
You cant get The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back by Charles Pellegrino at a bookstore. Amazon has used copies at ridiculous prices. A library might have it; I have a review copy. The publisher, according to the author, has recalled most copies not to the warehouse but for pulping and recycling (I …
Mere Insistence
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, edited by Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk (Chichester, U.K.: Publisher, 2009, cloth ISBN 978-1-4051-9045-9) and paper 978-1-4051-9046-6) 346 pp. Cloth $69.25. Paper $26. 95. “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God,” Psalms declares and adds, “They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, …
The Ideas of Arthur C. Clarke
Most critical discussions of Arthur C. Clarke’s writings rarely delve beyond his stories and novels; but to understand his fiction, one must examine how Clarke thought about future pos sibilities. His approach to looking ahead is the basis of his vision of human history and its promise. Clarke fulfilled the ambitions of science fiction (SF) …
Inconvenient Evidence
The Jesus Family Tomb, by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-119202-9) 218 pp. Cloth $27.95. This book does not stray beyond its evidence, but the implications of its findings are what has brought down a heap of abuse on it—often from people who demonstrate, through a telltale factual mistake they …