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Science Fiction & Fantasy
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... See More
Science Fiction
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... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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... See More
Science Fiction
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... See More
Humor & Entertainment
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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... See More
Science Fiction
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... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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... See More
Science Fiction
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... See More
Humor & Entertainment
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... See More
Science Fiction
Nebula Award Finalist Doctor, 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... See More
Science Fiction
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... See More
Science Fiction
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,"... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Action & Adventure
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Nightmare Blue: the most addictive drug in the universe. The alien race known as the Aensalords alone know from whence it comes, and are its sole purveyors. Already its effects are visible on Earth -- in the stark, raving... See More