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When Gravity Fails
E-bok, 2014
148 kr
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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 …
What Entropy Means to Me
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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Nebula Award FinalistDoctor, 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, …
Those Gentle Voices
A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Relatives
E-bok, 2014
131 kr
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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 …
Thousand Deaths
Stories
Av George Alec Effinger, Marty Halpern
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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. …
Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything and Target: Berlin!
Stories
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Live! From Planet Earth
Stories
Av George Alec Effinger, Marty Halpern
E-bok, 2014
59 kr
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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 …
Irrational Numbers
Stories
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Heroics
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Fire in the Sun
E-bok, 2014
148 kr
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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, …
Felicia
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Death in Florence
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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, …
Nick of Time
E-bok, 2014
148 kr
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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 …
Exile Kiss
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Dirty Tricks
Stories
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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'' …
Budayeen Nights
Stories
E-bok, 2014
65 kr
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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 …
Bird of Time
E-bok, 2014
33 kr
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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 …
Budayeen Cycle
When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss
E-bok, 2017
394 kr
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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 …
