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A Thousand Deaths
| Author: | George Alec Effinger |
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Golden Gryphon Press, 2007 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
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 the inhabitants of Planet D succomb 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.
Includes:
- The Wolves of Memory
- Fatal Disk Error
- In the Wings
- From The Desk of
- The Wicked Old Witch
- Mango Red Goes to War
- The Thing From the Slush
- Posterity
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