George Alec Effinger

Hired by a two-hundred-year-old underground crime lord to carry out a vengeance attack, Marid Audrian is altered with sophisticated surgical implants that will enable him to counter a deadly killer whose abilities have been enhanced by the personalities of history's most notorious psychopaths. By the author of Schrodinger's Kitten. Reprint.

When Gravity Fails

In a sequel to When Gravity Fails, Marid, having risen from an impoverished Arabian ghetto hustler to a powerful cop under the thumb of a local mob boss, struggles with a lack of independence while investigating a series of brutal crimes linked to the mobster's chief rival. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A Fire in the Sun

Presents a collection of stories, including "Slow, slow burn," "King of the cyber rifles," and "The city on the sand."

Budayeen Nights

A conclusion to a series that began with When Gravity Fails and A Fire In the Sun finds Mard Audran settling into newfound wealth and privilege as an enforcer for one of the city's most feared men, only to be accused of murder and sentenced to exile and death in the Arabian desert, where he and his employer must face harrowing odds in order to survive and exact revenge. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Exile Kiss

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is “wry and black and savage” (George R. R. Martin). Praised as “a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be,” George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless science fiction achievement that continues to amaze, shock, and captivate readers (SF Signal). When Gravity Fails: Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes readers into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware, and surgically altered bodies. Street hustler Marîd Audran has always prided himself on his independence, free from commitments, connections, and even cybernetic modifications. But when a string of brutal murders lands him on the radar of Friedlander Bey, the most powerful and dangerous man in the decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, Audran is forced to change his loner ways, or risk losing his life . . . A Fire in the Sun: Once a small-time smuggler, Marîd Audran has, to his chagrin, moved up in the ranks of the criminal underworld to become a lieutenant in Friedlander Bey’s shadowy empire. Tasked with being Bey’s eyes and ears inside local law enforcement, Audran finds himself tracking yet another serial killer through the streets of the Budayeen. And the closer he gets to his target, the more embroiled he becomes in the deadly political machinations hidden behind the city’s façade. The Exile Kiss: Marîd Audran is finally learning to appreciate the wealth and benefits that come from being on Friedlander Bey’s payroll when a powerful enemy does the unthinkable, and gets both Audran and Bey exiled from the Budayeen. Abandoned in the lifeless and lethal Arabian Desert, Audran and Bey have only one option: survive long enough to exact revenge on the man responsible.

When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss

The Budayeen Cycle

The human race has turned over its cares and woes to the infinitely superior mechanism of TECT, but not everyone is at home in this new world.

The Wolves of Memory

"In the 23rd century, when plug-in personality modules are as easy to obtain as gender reassignment, pleasures are cheap and death is easy. Marid Audran has kept his independence the hard way, selling his detection skills in the slums of the Budayeen. By his standards, it's a comfortable life. But his hard-won freedom is about to be tested ..."--Jacket.

The Audran Sequence

A Novel

Relatives

Gardner Dozois

Nightmare Blue

Cuando falla la gravedad

El Beso Del Exilio

Zwei Astronauten auf dem Planet der Affen... Ihre Namen sind Alan Virdon und Pete Burke. Als Astronauten der US-Airforce wurden sie unter härtesten Bedingungen geschult und mannigfaltigen Überlebenstests unterworfen. Doch als ihr Vorstoß ins All auf der Erde der Zukunft endet, sind Alan und Pete unvorbereitet auf das, was sie erwartet: Die Erde wird beherrscht von intelligenten Affen, und jeder Mensch – egal ob Mann, Frau oder Kind – ist nichts anderes als ein Sklave der Affen... Terror auf dem Planet der Affen basiert auf der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie Planet Of The Apes, die es im Jahr 1974 auf 14 Episoden brachte und die auf der gleichnamigen Kino-Reihe aufbaute. Der vorliegende Band enthält die Adaptionen Hetzjagd auf dem Planet der Affen, Terror auf dem Planet der Affen und Gefangen auf dem Planet der Affen.

Die Romane zur legendären TV-Serie in einem Band!

TERROR AUF DEM PLANET DER AFFEN

Short Stories

Mixed Feelings

Nebula Award Finalist Doctor, watch out! As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging forward using long, tentacle-like attachments: what is that thing? Slowly the subhuman blob comes in to focus, and Dore realizes...it's a colossal radish! This is a monster never before wrestled with; what are they going to do? After reading this vegetative tale, you won't look at your garden the same way again.

What Entropy Means to Me

Jack L. Chalker

Mike Resnick

Michael D. Resnick

Sixty-seven centuries in the future, a bureaucratic snafu makes Millard Fillmore Pierce the Milky Way's representative to an invasion force from another dimension

The Red Tape War

A novel of first alien contact—and the conspiracy it unveils—from the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls. “Because it’s there”—that was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star Wolf 359. In 1988 they had learned that intelligent inhabitants from a planet orbiting Wolf 359 had been signaling Earth. That fact was reason enough to dispatch a manned probe to explore and investigate. But perhaps there was another reason for the journey—a reason too incredible for Earth people ever to imagine, a reason they may never understand, even when they land on the planet they call Jennings’ World. Author George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical science fiction. Before his death in 2002 he gained the highest esteem among his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. Despite a life filled with chronic illness, Effinger was a prolific novelist and short story writer, earning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award nominations.

A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways

Those Gentle Voices

Stories of schizophrenic cities, technocratic rule, and mistaken identities by the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls. In these eleven short stories by speculative fiction master George Alec Effinger, New York's populace must deal with the realities of a bi-polar existence; patients' brains are cut to tiny pieces in a clinical search for the medical definition of bliss; a little child's natural fear of the dark is exploded into new mind-bending phobias and a cartoon favorite pays a personal visit to an aging, aching fan. Humor, sheer audacity, and an eclectic array of human fears and expectations placed against each other all make this collection a perfect representation of Effinger's unique voice. He is a truly remarkable talent and one not to be missed.

Stories

Dirty Tricks

The right hand man to one of the most feared men in the Arab world, Marid Audran is just beginning to enjoy the wealth and privilege of his position when he and his boss, the powerful Friedlander Bey, are accused of murder. Reprint.

With Glorian prodding him ever onward, Mirakles descends into the Great Underground Empire where he encounters Spike the Protector, the Dragon's Lair, the Wizard's Workroom, the winged vampire were-unicorn, and the Warm Boot of Frobozz

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