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George Alec Effinger (1947–2002)

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Das Ende der Schwere. Roman. (1987) 1,467 Exemplare
Budayeen Nights (2003) 201 Exemplare
Red Tape War (1991) — Autor — 177 Exemplare
The Zork Chronicles (1990) 176 Exemplare
What Entropy Means to Me (1972) 173 Exemplare
Trinity (1997) 158 Exemplare
Nightmare Blue (1975) — Autor — 104 Exemplare
Chains of the Sea (1973) — Autor — 102 Exemplare
Die Wölfe der Erinnerung (1981) 100 Exemplare
Those Gentle Voices (1976) 90 Exemplare
Zeitknick. Roman. (1985) — Autor — 83 Exemplare
Live! From Planet Earth (2005) — Autor — 77 Exemplare
The Audran Sequence (2008) 72 Exemplare
The Bird of Time (1986) — Autor — 62 Exemplare
Death in Florence (1978) 55 Exemplare
Relatives (1973) 48 Exemplare
A Thousand Deaths (2007) 45 Exemplare
Idle Pleasures (1983) 38 Exemplare
Terror auf dem Planet der Affen (1974) 31 Exemplare
Dirty Tricks (1978) 30 Exemplare
Proteus: Voices for the 80's (1981) 29 Exemplare
Endzeit. (1976) 28 Exemplare
Heroics (1979) 19 Exemplare
The Old Funny Stuff (1989) 19 Exemplare
Felicia (1976) 17 Exemplare
Mixed Feelings (1974) 16 Exemplare
Look Away (1990) 12 Exemplare
Haunt of Horror, Volume 1, No.1 (1973) — Herausgeber — 9 Exemplare
Shadow Money (1988) 8 Exemplare
Heartstop 4 Exemplare
Unferno 2 Exemplare
Slow Slow Burn 2 Exemplare
The Plastic Pasha 2 Exemplare
One 2 Exemplare
Hermanos 2 Exemplare
Double Dribble 2 Exemplare
The Worm Oroboros 1 Exemplar
The Mezentian Gate 1 Exemplar
Marid Changes Her Mind (2001) 1 Exemplar
Exile Kiss, The 1 Exemplar
Sand and Stones 1 Exemplar
Timmy Was Eight 1 Exemplar
The Pinch-Hitters 1 Exemplar
B.K.A. The Master 1 Exemplar
Two Sadnesses 1 Exemplar
Aeon 1 Exemplar
Walking Gods (2004) 1 Exemplar
The Ghost Writer 1 Exemplar
How It Felt 1 Exemplar
Ibid 1 Exemplar

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An odd little book, nominally SF but written like hardboiled detective fiction from the 1930s. May have got 3 stars but for the bait and switch.
 
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SteveMcSteve | Jan 8, 2024 |
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger was published just three years after William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Like Gibson’s Case, Effinger’s Audran Marîd requires a wired brain to get the most out of virtual reality. Case uses a plug in his head to exercise his mad hacking skills in an abstract virtual space. Audran has his mental processing power and stamina amped up by implants. Audran can become a simulacrum of a fictional detective like Nero Wolfe. The villain, meanwhile, is dressing like James Bond and ordering his martinis shaken, not stirred. Unlike Case, Audran has the machine forced on him by the local godfather, who needs him to solve an underworld crime. The story takes place in a large middle eastern city that resembles Cairo and has a cast of characters that would be at home in a future remake of Casablanca. Effinger tells a good story.… (mehr)
 
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Tom-e | 33 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 20, 2023 |
Had i read this book in the 80s or 90s, i would have loved it, as it provides exactly what i had expected then from a noir cyberpunk. Unfortunately, today it feels seriously dated - not only in its technology, but also in its form and storyline. Also, it's supposedly set in an Arab world, but the characters think American, behave American and speak American - nothing actually feels Middle Eastern at all, but rather Chicago.
 
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milosdumbraci | 33 weitere Rezensionen | May 5, 2023 |
En un futuro no demasiado lejano, en el que la Unión Soviética ha sufrido un proceso irreversible de balcanización y Occidente ha perdido el protagonismo que detenta en la actualidad, los Países Árabes controlan en gran medida el destino de las naciones, y su cultura y tradiciones florecen incorporado los últimos avances de la tecnología y la informática.
En este marco se desarrollan las peripecias de Marid Auran, un hijo del Budayén, el barrio maldito donde prosperan la corrupción y la violencia.
Marid empieza a conocer los métodos utilizados por Bey para ejercer su poder mientras se encuentra convertido en un instrumento más de éste, vislumbrando el escalofriante alcance del mafioso en el mundo. Sin embargo, abandonado junto a Bey en lo más profundo del desierto, sabe que en esa ocasión la supervivencia de ambos depende tan solo de la capacidad de su organismo para soportar una deshidratación cuyos efectos bloquea artificialmente.
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Natt90 | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 16, 2022 |

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