George Alec Effinger Books In Order

Marîd Audran Books In Publication Order

  1. When Gravity Fails (1986)
  2. A Fire in the Sun (1990)
  3. The Exile Kiss (1991)

The Nick of Time Books In Publication Order

  1. The Nick of Time (1985)
  2. The Bird of Time (1986)

Planet of the Apes Books In Publication Order

  1. Man the Fugitive (1974)
  2. Escape to Tomorrow (1975)
  3. Journey Into Terror (1975)
  4. Lord of the Apes (1976)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. What Entropy Means to Me (1972)
  2. Relatives (1973)
  3. Nightmare Blue (1975)
  4. Those Gentle Voices (1976)
  5. Felicia (1976)
  6. Death in Florence / Utopia 3 (1978)
  7. Heroics (1979)
  8. The Wolves Of Memory (1981)
  9. Shadow Money (1988)
  10. Schrödinger’s Kitten (1988)
  11. The old funny stuff (1989)
  12. Look Away (1990)
  13. The Red Tape War (With: Mike Resnick,Jack L. Chalker) (1991)
  14. Trinity: Hope-Sacrifice-Unity (1997)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything & Target (2011)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Mixed Feelings (1974)
  2. Irrational Numbers (1976)
  3. Dirty Tricks (1978)
  4. Idle Pleasures (1983)
  5. Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson (1993)
  6. Budayeen Nights (2003)
  7. Live! from Planet Earth (2005)
  8. A Thousand Deaths (2007)
  9. Bliss-Bestowing Hands (2016)

Castle Falkenstein Books In Publication Order

  1. From Prussia with Love (By:John DeChancie) (1995)
  2. Masterminds of Falkenstein (By:John DeChancie) (1996)
  3. The League of Dragons (1997)

Heroes in Hell Books In Publication Order

  1. Heroes in Hell (By:C.J. Cherryh,Gregory Benford,Janet E. Morris,,Chris Morris) (1986)
  2. The Gates of Hell (By:C.J. Cherryh,Janet E. Morris) (1986)
  3. Kings in Hell (By:C.J. Cherryh,Janet E. Morris) (1987)
  4. Crusaders in Hell (By:C.J. Cherryh,Gregory Benford,David Drake,Janet E. Morris,,Chris Morris) (1987)
  5. Angels in Hell (By:Janet E. Morris) (1987)
  6. The Little Helliad (By:Janet E. Morris,Chris Morris) (1988)
  7. War in Hell (By:Janet E. Morris) (1988)
  8. Prophets in Hell (With: C.J. Cherryh,Robert Sheckley,David Drake,Janet E. Morris,,Chris Morris) (1989)
  9. Lawyers in Hell (By:Janet E. Morris,Chris Morris,,Jason Cordova) (2011)
  10. Poets in Hell (By:Janet E. Morris,,Chris Morris) (2014)

Infocom Books In Publication Order

  1. Stationfall (By:Arthur Byron Cover) (1987)
  2. Wishbringer (By:Craig Shaw Gardner) (1988)
  3. Planetfall (By:Arthur Byron Cover) (1988)
  4. Enchanter (By:Robin Wayne Bailey) (1989)
  5. The Zork Chronicles (1990)
  6. The Lost City of Zork (By:Robin Wayne Bailey) (1991)

Isaac Asimov’s Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Isaac Asimov’s Space of Her Own (By:Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,,Mary Gentle) (1983)
  2. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens & Outworlders (By:Isaac Asimov,,Larry Niven,Lisa Tuttle,Garry Douglas Kilworth,Jack C. Haldeman II,Barry N. Malzberg,William F. Wu,Steve Perry,Bob Shaw,Kate Wilhelm,,,,Madeleine E. Robins) (1983)
  3. Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By:) (1985)
  4. Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (With: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard) (1989)
  5. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)
  6. Isaac Asimov’s Robots (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)
  7. Isaac Asimov’s SF-Lite (By:Isaac Asimov) (1993)
  8. Isaac Asimov’s War (By:Isaac Asimov) (1993)
  9. Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams (By:Isaac Asimov) (1994)
  10. Isaac Asimov’s Skin Deep (By:Isaac Asimov) (1995)
  11. Isaac Asimov’s Ghosts (By:Isaac Asimov) (1995)
  12. Isaac Asimov’s Christmas (By:Isaac Asimov) (1997)
  13. Isaac Asimov’s Camelot (By:Isaac Asimov) (1998)
  14. Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov) (1998)
  15. Isaac Asimov’s Valentines (By:Isaac Asimov) (1999)
  16. Isaac Asimov’s Werewolves (By:Isaac Asimov) (1999)
  17. Isaac Asimov’s Solar System (By:Gardner R. Dozois) (1999)
  18. Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov) (2000)
  19. Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)
  20. Isaac Asimov’s Halloween (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Study War No More (1977)
  2. Alpha 7 (1977)
  3. The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
  4. The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986)
  5. Friends of the Horseclans (1987)
  6. Robert Adams’ Book of Alternate Worlds (1987)
  7. Barbarians 2 (1988)
  8. Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold (1988)
  9. Inside the Funhouse (1992)
  10. War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (1996)

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George Alec Effinger Books Overview

When Gravity Fails

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. 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 sad*istic 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.

A Fire in the Sun

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 envoy to the police. His new position has brought him money and power which he would abandon in a moment if he could return to a life of neither owning nor being owned. Which, unfortunately, isn’t one of his options. It’s also not an issue. For something dark is afoot. Something that is sending the city into chaos. Helping a child mutilator to avoid arrest. Sending a killer to murder Marid’s partner. Murdering prostitutes and savaging their remains. Signs point to the hand of Abu Adil the one man in the city whose power rivals Friedlander Bey’s. Whatever happens next, it’s not going to be good news for Marid Audran

The Exile Kiss

Mar d Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right hand man of one of the Maghreb’s most feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Mar d is just beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are betrayed by a rival and accused of murder.

Sentenced to exile and abandoned to die in the vast Arabian desert, Mar d and Bey must somehow survive the searing sands and make their way back to the now hostile Budayeen and, then, take their vengeance.

By turns thrilling and philosophical, The Exile Kiss is the culmination of one of the great works of modern SF.

The Nick of Time

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 a lucrative tourist industry. But the time travel industry was keeping one little fact to itself: two percent never came back. This cover up was the work of the Agency. The Agency knew what others did not: that the past wasn’t really the past but a complicated dynamic of individual perceptions of what the past might have been. The past isn’t real and reality becomes a state of mind. While selling their particular brand of escapist entertainment and vacation packages, the Agency didn’t bother to tell its clients or the populace in general that a war was going on a time war. The Agency was spending its time in a neck and neck battle with the Temporary Underground. The battlefield was none other than the space time continuum, the weapons time shifts and theoretical mathematics. Hartstein had no idea what his trip would be or where it would take him.

Schrödinger’s Kitten

There were no minarets in the Budayeen, but in the city all around the walled quarters there were many mosques. Leaning against a grimy wall, Jehan heard the chanted cries of the muezzins, but she paid them no mind. She stared at the dead body at her feet, the body of a boy a few years older than she, someone she had seen about the Budayeen but whom she did not know by name. She killed him because he would do her harm in one of a number of probable, but uncertain, futures. This story is the author’s masterpiece, set in his Budayeen universe, and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Dirty Tricks

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 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.

Budayeen Nights

A dark and gritty trip into the imagination of one of science fiction’s most gifted authors, this collection presents all nine tales of the Budayeen gathered together in one archival quality volume, available for the first time in more than 20 years. Here is the Budayeen: a gritty fusion of Bogart’s Casablanca, New Orleans’ notoriously seedy French Quarter, and a futuristic Muslim city, all welded together and serving as the perfect backdrop for Marid, a drug addled policeman and anti hero of world class proportion. This is a collection to get lost in, from the city’s sordid underbelly to the glamorous excesses of the ‘sex moddy’ industry, from the tall, ancient mosque towers to the strong voiced muezzin calling the faithful to morning devotions, the Budayeen leaps to sudden life, making claims to its own reality as only the best science fiction can.

Live! from Planet Earth

Originally intended to be a collaboration with the author, this collection of the most memorable short stories of the late George Alec Effinger is a tribute from those who best knew his work his friends, fellow writers, and editors. In addition to handpicking their favorite pieces, Michael Bishop, Neil Gaiman, Barbara Hambly, Mike Resnick, Howard Waldrop, and others have contributed a personal introduction or afterword to accompany each selection that reveals their deep respect for and insights into the author. The short stories ‘The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything’ and ‘Everything but Honor,’ both Hugo Award finalists, are among those included. Of special interest are seven previously uncollected short stories and a poem written under the author’s pen name, O. Niemand. Introduced by Gardner Dozois, former editor of Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, these stories are uniquely written in the style of other authors including Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, and Mark Twain. Considered by Effinger to be ‘sympathetic homage’ rather than parody or caricature, they present his perspective on how these noted authors would have tackled science fiction, such as ‘The Man Outside,’ the John Steinbeck inspired story about a loner in a domed city on an asteroid deep in space.

A Thousand Deaths

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 to fall in line, Sandor finds the new planet s idyllic environment and fulfilling lifestyle to his liking at first. Upon discovering that all of the inhabitants of Planet D succumb to an insidious, debilitating disease, Sandor embarks on a race against time to discover the meaning behind Planet D, the motives of TECT, and the mysterious malady. Utilizing a unique approach with the use of flashbacks, this powerful story, with poignant and sardonic tones, is a heartrending display of one man s pain and absolution.

From Prussia with Love (By:John DeChancie)

A swashbuckling romp through the 19th century court of Mad King Ludwig, in an alternate history where dragons, elves, and dwarves share the stage with Sherlock Holmes, Fu Man Chu, and Doc Holiday, among others. From the author of MagicNet and Living with Aliens. Available immediately.

Lawyers in Hell (By:Janet E. Morris,Chris Morris,,Jason Cordova)

From Kerlak Publishing: Heaven lays down the law and Hell gets more Hellish in Lawyers in Hell, marking the return of Heroes in Helltm, the greatest shared universe of all times. The Commandments weren’t merely suggestions and there were over three hundred of them. And now, as the Higher Powers send auditors through the underworlds to dispense yet greater injustice, heroes and villains from all of history are about to be reminded that sin doesn’t pay…
and in Hell, neither does virtue:…
Satan gives an interview and hands down a terrible judgment…
. Alexander the Great and Lawrence of Arabia try to get a soldier off the hook…
. Caesar and Cleopatra seek an out of court settlement when Hell’s auditors come calling…
. Leonidas and the 300 face a Hot Wash in Hades…
. Che Guevara and Kurt Cobain find out you can’t love the bomb…
. Rasputin tells it like it is, and deeper damnation is the result for Marie Antoinette…
. Napoleon and Wellington go high tech in order to fight Hell’s demons…
. Harry Houdini finds there’s no escape. All this and more peril in Perdition await in 22 tales that will make you fear for your immortal soul…
Including the diabolical works of: Janet Morris Richard Groller Nancy Asire CJ Cherryh Edward McKeown Bruce Durham Michael Armstrong Allan Gilbreath Michael H. Hanson Kimberly Richardson Deborah Koren Larry Atchley, Jr. Sarah Hulcy David L. Burkhead Chris Morris Scott Oden John Manning Michael Z. Williamson Jason Cordova Leo Champion Bradley H. Sinor

Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov)

Uncover a unique collection of mysterious science fiction that goes beyond the mean streets and hard boiled hideouts of traditional tales of dead eye dicks that are out of this world! From the files of Isaac Asimov’s Science FIction Magazine stories from Gregg Egan, Lisa Goldstein, Isaac Asimov, John Varley, Kate Wilhelm, and Nancy Kress.

Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov)

Acclaimed science fiction writers present their own provocative visions of what an ideal world is really like…

Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov)

From the award winning pages of Asimov’s Science Fiction today’s most creative minds explore the fierce, fragile bond between fathers and their children.

Inside the Funhouse

A collection of seventeen tales of science fiction features works by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, George Alec Effinger, Jane Yolen, Ian Watson, Barry N. Malzberg, Patricia Nurse, and others.

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

In an anthology of tales inspired by Wells’s The War of the Worlds, notable science fiction authors such as Connie Willis, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, and Gregory Benford imagine the Martian invasion seen through the eyes of his contemporaries in other locations throughout the world.

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