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George Alec Effinger

    10 de enero de 1947 – 27 de abril de 2002
    George Alec Effinger
    Planet of the Apes
    Red Tape War
    When Gravity Fails
    The Exile Kiss
    A Fire in the Sun
    Nightmare Blue
    • Nightmare Blue

      • 190 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Fontana 1st 1977 edition vg++ paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

      Nightmare Blue
    • Marid Audran has risen from street punk to right-hand man for Algiers' boss, and in the wake of murder, suddenly he finds himself a defender of the badge.

      A Fire in the Sun
    • The Exile Kiss

      • 318 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      The story follows Marîd Audran, who transitions from a street hustler in the Budayeen ghetto to the enforcer for the formidable Friedlander Bey. Just as he starts to relish his wealth and status, betrayal strikes when a rival accuses him and Bey of murder, thrusting them into a perilous situation that challenges their survival and loyalty. The narrative explores themes of power, betrayal, and the complexities of rising through a corrupt society.

      The Exile Kiss
    • When Gravity Fails

      • 284 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he’s available…for a price.For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can’t refuse.The 200-year-old “godfather” of the Budayeen’s underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.Wry, savage, and unignorable, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic by Effinger’s fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of “Marid Audrian” novels it begins were the culmination of his career.

      When Gravity Fails
    • Red Tape War

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      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

      Red Tape War
    • Planet of the Apes

      • 500 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      When men discovered that the Planet of the Apes was their own Earth, it was only the beginning of the most incredible adventure of all time. The third omnibus features captivating novelizations of the original TV series stories Man the Fugitive, Escape to Tomorrow, Journey Into Terror and Lord of the Apes.

      Planet of the Apes
    • »Wunderschön im Handwerklichen, tragikomisch das bisher beste Buch eines hervorragenden SF-Autors« PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Dies ist die Geschichte von TECT, dem gottgleichen Computer, der in seiner Weisheit, in seiner Allmacht und in seiner maschinenhaften Gleichgültigkeit die Geschicke der Menschen verwaltet Seine Ratschlüsse sind ebenso unergrundlich wie unmenschlich Ist TECT ein müde gewordener Gott, der seinen »Heilsplan« durchsetzen will und gleichzeitig seine Abschaltung betreibt, um sich seiner Verantwortung für die Menschheit zu entheben ? Und es ist die Geschichte von Sandor Courane, dem guten Kerl, der immer für andere da ist, den man herumschubsen und demütigen kann und den TECT schheßlich ohne Grund in die Hölle eines fernen Planeten schickt, weil er ja nur ein unbedeutendes Werkzeug ist Ein großartiger Roman: witzig und weise, böse, satirisch bis zur Blasphemie, und gleichzeitig melancholisch, von tiefem Mitleid geprägt für die geschundene menschliche Kreatur. Eine brillante Mischung aus Hiob und M.A-S.H., ein ergreifendes und erschütterndes Buch.

      Die Wölfe der Erinnerung. Science Fiction Roman.
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      • 186 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Die deutsche Ausgabe enthält nicht die in der Originalausgabe enthaltenen Geschichten "Curtains", "Lydectes: On the Nature of Sport" sowie die Einleitung von Robert Silverberg.

      Endzeit.