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Once a small-time street hustler in the decadent Algerian ghetto called the Budayeen, Marid Audran has become a part of the system he has always despised. Now, Audran has stumbled upon a ruthless campaign of terror that cruelly strikes down his partner--and goes on a crusade for vengeance.

The sequel to When Gravity Fails and A Fire in the Sun is a book that "stands out already as one of the new year's phenomenal works" (Locus). Unjustly abandoned to die in a vast desert, Marid Audran and Friedlander Bey must cross the searing sands to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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 nothing-no one will ever be the same!

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...

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. Challenging and disquieting in the way only the best fiction can be, ...

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 nothing-no one will ever be the same!

Marid Audran agrees to help a 200-year-old "godfather" of crime defeat the psychopathic killer roaming the streets of their Arabic ghetto. But to do so, he must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to stop a killer with the powers of every psychopath since the beginning of time.

This volume of science fiction thrillers contains a novel and seven short stories centered on the semi-autobiographical character Sandor Courane. The collection' s feature novel, "In the Wolves of Memory, " paints a world where Earth' s governing body, the Representatives, has relinquished control to an increasingly intelligent and self-aware computer known as TECT. Deemed a social misfit and banished from Earth to Planet D for his inability t...

Once a small-time street hustler in the decadent Algerian ghetto called the Budayeen, Marid Audran has become a part of the system he has always despised. Now, Audran has stumbled upon a ruthless campaign of terror that cruelly strikes down his partner--and goes on a crusade for vengeance.

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Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence. Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world. During the day, Marid is a policeman and Bey's personal en...

In these eleven short stories by speculative fiction master George Alec Effinger, New York's populace must deal with the realities of a bipolar 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 a...