Brute Orbits

Name: Brute Orbits
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ISBN: 9780061053801

ISBN-10: 0061053805

ISBN-13: 9780061053801

Edition: N/A

Authors: George Zebrowski

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It is the twenty-first century. Suffering from global warming and overpopulation, Earth is opening the solar system to industrialization. One of the largest growth industries -- "corrections" -- capitalizes on the opportunity, sending convicts to mine asteroids diverted into near-Earth orbits. Like the condemned digging their own graves, the convicts hollow out their own prisons, as the mined-out shells become deep-space cell blocks. Then an administrative genius realizes that the asteroid prisons can be inserted into solar orbits, timed to return to near-Earth space when terms run out. This not only adds further security, it removes the problem of abuse by guards, since they are no longer…

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List price: $15.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Language: English