（外文电子版资料）George Zebrowski - Heathen-God.pdf

Heathen-God George Zebrowski GEORGE ZEBROWSKI was bornDecember 28, 1945 , inVillach,Austria, of Polish parents. He grew up inEngland,Manhattan, theBronxandMiami, and he is one of an extremely small group of authors who have achieved literary success in a second language. He attendedHarpurCollegeand the State University of New York atBinghamton, majoring in philosophy, and he brings his interest in this field to his writing-several of his science fiction stories utilize philosophical concepts. He is a member of the World Future Society, Science Fiction Writers of America, and the SFWA Speakers Bureau. He has reviewed books for Craw daddy, Science Fiction Review and Riverside Quarterly,- has been a reader for Dell Books; has sold fiction to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, If, Infinity and to several forthcoming collections of original stories. Currently he lectures in science fiction at SUNY-Binghamton, edits the SfWA Bulletin and writes. His two forthcoming novels are The Omega Point and Macrolife. The story Heathen God was a 1971 Nebula Award finalist. . . . every heathen deity has its place in the flow of existence. The isolation station and preserve for alien flora and fauna on Antares IV had only one prisoner, a three-foot-tall gnome like biped with skin like creased leather and eyes like great glass globes. His hair was silky white and reached down to his shoulders, and he usually went about the great natural park naked. He lived in a small white cell located in one of the huge. block like administration modules. There was a small bed in the cell, and a small doorway which led out to the park. A hundred feet away from the door there was a small pool, one of many