George Alec Effinger (1947–2002)
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The City On The Sand [novelette] 4 Exemplare
Heartstop 4 Exemplare
King of the Cyber Rifles 3 Exemplare
Maureen Birnbaum At The Earth's Core 3 Exemplare
Marid Changes His Mind 3 Exemplare
Maureen Birnbaum at the Looming Awfulness 3 Exemplare
Maureen Birnbaum After Dark 3 Exemplare
Unferno 2 Exemplare
The Reinvention Of War 2 Exemplare
The Musgrave Version [short story] 2 Exemplare
Slow Slow Burn 2 Exemplare
Marid And The Trail Of Blood 2 Exemplare
The World as We Know It {short story} 2 Exemplare
The Plastic Pasha 2 Exemplare
Marid Throws A Party 2 Exemplare
One 2 Exemplare
Hermanos 2 Exemplare
Everything but Honor 2 Exemplare
Seven Nights in Slumberland 2 Exemplare
The Origin of the Polarizer 2 Exemplare
Double Dribble 2 Exemplare
Maureen Birnbaum on the Art of War [Horseclans] 2 Exemplare
Maureen Birnbaum and the Saint Graal 2 Exemplare
Maureen Birnbaum's Lunar Adventure [revised] 2 Exemplare
The Mothers' March on Ecstasy 2 Exemplare
A Fish Dinner in Memison 1 Exemplar
Neil and Buzz in Space and Time: Number One 1 Exemplar
The Worm Oroboros 1 Exemplar
Planet of the Apes Omnibus: Volume 3 1 Exemplar
Mistress of Mistresses 1 Exemplar
The Mezentian Gate 1 Exemplar
Exile Kiss, The 1 Exemplar
Sand and Stones 1 Exemplar
Irresistible {novelette] 1 Exemplar
Timmy Was Eight 1 Exemplar
The Awesome Menace of the Polarizer 1 Exemplar
Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD [short story] 1 Exemplar
The Pinch-Hitters 1 Exemplar
Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun 1 Exemplar
"World War II" (in Alpha 7) 1 Exemplar
Maureen Birnbaum on a Hot Tin Roof 1 Exemplar
New New York New Orleans 1 Exemplar
Strange Ragged Saintliness 1 Exemplar
Live from Berchtesgaden 1 Exemplar
Things Go Better {short story} 1 Exemplar
B.K.A. The Master 1 Exemplar
Chase Our Blues Away 1 Exemplar
The Last Full Measure 1 Exemplar
Two Sadnesses 1 Exemplar
Aeon 1 Exemplar
Prince Pat [short fiction] 1 Exemplar
The Ghost Writer 1 Exemplar
How It Felt 1 Exemplar
Ibid 1 Exemplar
The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974) — Mitwirkender — 294 Exemplare
Nie wieder Krieg. 10 Alternativen von 10 bekannten SF- Autoren. (1977) — Mitwirkender — 259 Exemplare
World's Best SF V. Die Spitzen- Stories der amerikanischen Science Fiction. (1985) — Mitwirkender — 239 Exemplare
World's Best SF 8. Die besten Stories der amerikanischen Science Fiction (1989) — Mitwirkender — 237 Exemplare
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Mitwirkender — 184 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 2: The Science Fictional Olympics (1984) — Mitwirkender — 88 Exemplare
Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1988 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 58 Exemplare
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Mitwirkender — 36 Exemplare
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 3 (May 1973) (1973) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 1 [January 1984] (1984) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1985, Vol. 69, No. 6 (1985) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1984, Vol. 67, No. 2 (1984) — Autor — 14 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 13 [Mid-December 1987] (1987) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Hiroshima soll leben. Die schönsten Alternativwelt- Geschichten. (1993) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1983, Vol. 64, No. 4 (1983) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1986, Vol. 70, No. 2 (1986) — Autor — 10 Exemplare
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition (1994) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns (1991) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Autor — 10 Exemplare
Worlds near and far: Nine stories of science fiction and fantasy (1974) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Effinger, George Alec
- Andere Namen
- Effinger, Alex
Niemand, O.
Diomede, John K.
Doenim, Susan - Geburtstag
- 1947-01-10
- Todestag
- 2002-04-27
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Sterbeort
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Wohnorte
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Ausbildung
- Yale University
- Berufe
- science fiction writer
- Beziehungen
- Hambly, Barbara (wife|divorced)
- Organisationen
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Agent
- Richard Curtis Associates
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Not that Audran doesn’t go through plenty of changes.
Friedlander Bey, as always, gets his way when he forces Audran to marry Indihar, a former stripper at Audran’s club. She’s the widow of a policeman killed in the line of duty, partly because Audran, in his brief days as a policeman, showed up hungover that day. She’s made it clear she’s not sleeping with Audran.
The wedding is celebrated at the house of the local amir. There Bey’s rival, crime lord/civil leader/international political fixer Shayk Reda Abu Adil, no doubt for his own obscure, duplicitous ends, gives Audran a commission in the local, rather Nazi-like militia.
And, on the way out, Adil’s man, the always corrupt Lieutenant Hajjar, hustles the two men into a car. They’ve been framed for the murder of another policeman, and the local iman has signed an order exiling them from the city.
They are thrown into the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and barely escape death before meeting a desert tribe, the Bani Salim. Audran is changed by his time with them. He becomes harder, more ruthless, and more decisive.
Eventually, he and Bey return to the city (we never get its name). They get a meeting with the iman to appeal their case, and Audran starts to investigate the murder of that policeman to clear their name. Using a variation of a tactic the Bani Salim’s leader implemented to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl in their tribe, Audran sets out to find out who killed the cop.
Things get more complicated when the iman ends up killed too.
Audran has a discussion with one of Bey’s long-time assistants about the morality of commissioning cold-blooded murders. He’s assured that, while that may violate the Koran’s text, it doesn’t violate the intent because Bey does it to prevent chaos and protect his dependents and clients. And Audran comes to accept that moral logic when he dispatches a member of the Bani Salim, who returned with him to the city, to wreck some vengeance on those who exiled the two men.
There are clashes with Adil and his latest lieutenant and boytoy, Kenneth, and that local militia will play a part. The identity of the cop killer is hardly surprising nor is the resolution to Audran’s legal problems.
Audran’s continued episodes of public intoxication – despite his promises to stop – draw the ire of his “uncle” (actually, his great grandfather) Bey. Despite saving Bey’s life in the desert, the devout crime lord tells Audran that, if doesn’t stop, he’ll be taking another trip out into the desert. And he won’t be coming back from that one.
In the pre-Internet days, it’s interesting to see something like it mentioned in this story. The city has a public communication system accessed by public kiosks. The city just happens to eliminate the subsidies for the free service, and Bey just happens to have a supplier of replacement equipment which he will be happy to sell various business owners. (And, sometimes, mysterious problems on their communication equipment may happen if they delay its purchase.) This will give Bey access to a lot of private information. It will also enable him, in his self-appointed role as Defender of the Faith, to censor information. However, nothing is really done with this development in the novel.
Nor is the conflict between Adil and Bey settled. We find out that Bey won’t sanction killing Adil because of some mysterious promise he made to a woman. As hinted at it Budayeen Nights, that conflict was to have a surprising conclusion if the series had been completed.
It’s still an enjoyable novel, and you’ll want to read it if you’ve read the other Audran novels, but it’s the least satisfying of the three.… (mehr)