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  • BUDAYEEN NIGHTS
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    BUDAYEEN NIGHTS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    A "brilliant collection" of short stories set in a "marvelously realized, imaginary Muslim city" from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Long identified as a science fiction writer, except in his own eyes, George Alec Effinger had some of his biggest critical and commercial success with a series even he recognized and characterized as...

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  • LIVE! FROM PLANET EARTH
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    LIVE! FROM PLANET EARTH
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    The Hugo Award–winning author's "most memorable short stories . . . a tribute from those who best knew his work—his friends, fellow writers, and editors" (SFRevu). George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical Science Fiction. Before his death in 2002, he gained the highest esteem amongst his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the hum...

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  • HEROICS
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    HEROICS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    A coming-of-old-age novel from the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls. "Engaging . . . spry, inventive, and often quite funny" ( Kirkus Reviews). In HEROICS, Irene--like everyone in the future--struggles with boredom. Food, clothing, and all the necessities of human life have been taken care of. But, what does that leave of life itself? At eighty-two, Irene sets ou...

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  • A THOUSAND DEATHS
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    A THOUSAND DEATHS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    Science fiction stories that offer "a poignant glimpse into the author's psyche . . . this bittersweet collection [is] one to be cherished" ( Publishers Weekly). When we first meet Courane, he must face down TECT, the self-aware computer that has come to control Earth and its colonial planets. Exiled to Planet D, Courane races to cure the debilitating disease that attacks each ...

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  • DEATH IN FLORENCE
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    DEATH IN FLORENCE
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    A plan to make a perfect world leads to its destruction in this science fiction thriller from the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls. In a wild and crazy novel composed equally of black humor and deep, humane insight, George Alec Effinger strips away the veneer of civilization, revealing the deep truths by which we all live. Without the culture we have accumulated,...

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  • THE ALIENS WHO KNEW, I MEAN, EVERYTHING AND TARGET: BERLIN!
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    THE ALIENS WHO KNEW, I MEAN, EVERYTHING AND TARGET: BERLIN!
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    A hilarious story of overly helpful aliens and a WWII alternate history tale from the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls. These two short stories serve as a wonderful glimpse into the mind of multiple Hugo and Nebula Award nominee George Alec Effinger, a singular talent in the world of SF. In  The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything, benevolent aliens have arrived ...

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  • RELATIVES
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    RELATIVES
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    Three slightly different versions of the same man inhabit three radically different versions of our world in this novel by a Nebula Award winner. Ernest Weinraub, Ernst Weinraub, Ernst Weintraub—three slightly different versions of the same name, the same man. Each incarnation of Weintraub/Weinraub inhabits a different version of our world: Ernest Weinraub lives in a maddeningl...

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  • WHAT ENTROPY MEANS TO ME
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    WHAT ENTROPY MEANS TO ME
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    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, ...

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  • WHEN GRAVITY FAILS
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    WHEN GRAVITY FAILS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this "wry and black and savage" Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin).   Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes us into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic ...

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  • IRRATIONAL NUMBERS
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    IRRATIONAL NUMBERS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    Stories that "belong to a world that has been shaped not only by Asimov and Heinlein but also by Borges, Pynchon and Barthelme" ( The New York Times). In IRRATIONAL NUMBERS, as with much of his work, author George Alec Effinger straddles the line between allegorical fantasy and science fiction. It's a vein Effinger mines for a deep, meaningful understanding of human nature. Cha...

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  • A FIRE IN THE SUN
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    A FIRE IN THE SUN
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the futuristic, high-tech Middle East setting of When Gravity Falls in this "major science fiction epic" ( Locus). In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel When Gravity Fails, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where ...

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  • THE EXILE KISS
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    THE EXILE KISS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    From a Nebula Award winner: A "phenomenal," action-packed tale of crime, corruption, and cybernetics ( Locus). Set in a divided near future,  The Exile Kiss is author George Alec Effinger's third book about the high-tech Arab ghetto called the Budayeen. It is a world filled with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in m...

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  • THOSE GENTLE VOICES
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    THOSE GENTLE VOICES
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    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 en...

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  • THE NICK OF TIME
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    THE NICK OF TIME
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    The world's first time traveler embarks on a multiverse misadventure in this madcap novel from "one of SF's distinctively nutty voices!" ( Chicago Tribune). Time travel: been there, done that … or at least Frank Mihalik has. On February 17, 1996, Frank discovers the secret to time-travel, or at least he thought he had. He must embark on a voyage through time and space in order ...

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  • THE BIRD OF TIME
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    THE BIRD OF TIME
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing on the cake. It had been a long time since that first experiment in time travel was successfully pulled off, although not without its flaws. Now, in the future, time travel was ...

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  • DIRTY TRICKS
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    DIRTY TRICKS
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    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 b...

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  • THE BUDAYEEN CYCLE
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    THE BUDAYEEN CYCLE
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    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). ...

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  • FELICIA
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    FELICIA
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    Someone's about to rip off a sleepy little Louisiana town! Chuck's gang of truckers are geared for looting. When Tom masterminds a false hurricane alert…When sheriff Boshardt orders an evacuation of the town…When Chuck moves in to strip the town clean…Their cool caper escalates into a devastating triple-cross that rips the rooftops off everything from Miami to New Orleans—and n...

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  • FELICIA
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    FELICIA
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    Someone’s about to rip off a sleepy little Louisiana town! Chuck’s gang of truckers are geared for looting. When Tom masterminds a false hurricane alert…When sheriff Boshardt orders an evacuation of the town…When Chuck moves in to strip the town clean…Their cool caper escalates into a devastating triple-cross that rips the rooftops off everything from Miami to New Orleans—and n...

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  • A FIRE IN THE SUN
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    A FIRE IN THE SUN
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the futuristic, high-tech Middle East setting of When Gravity Falls in this “major science fiction epic” (Locus). In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel When Gravity Fails, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where p...

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  • WHAT ENTROPY MEANS TO ME
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    WHAT ENTROPY MEANS TO ME
    GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
    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, ...

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