Sunspacer

Sunspacer #1

by George Zebrowski

Joe Sorby, a high school student of a future century, has a longing for faraway places that eventually takes him to a life of hardship and danger on the planet Mercury and in the Rings of Saturn.

309 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1984

About the author

George Zebrowski was an American science fiction writer and editor who wrote and edited a number of books, and was a former editor of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lived with author Pamela Sargent, with whom he co-wrote a number of novels, including Star Trek novels.
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," were nominated for the Nebula Award, and "The Idea Trap" was nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Reviews

[Charles Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite books since I first read it as a middle schooler in the 80s. Rereading it 30+ years later, I was kind of amazed that it held up so well. And it was fascinating to see how predictive he was on some of the tech.
The social undertones are still issues we gave as a society today. This is also a solid coming of age story.