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Montezuma Strip

Montezuma Strip

Alan Dean Foster

The ultimate maquiladora. Montezuma Strip: First world tech and Third World wages, sprawling from L.A. to East Elpaso Juarez, Guyamas to Phoenix; a thousand gangs, a million locos; and a few wealthy beyond the dreams of god.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay
  • Sanctuary - (1988) - novella
  • Heartwired - (1992) - novelette
  • Gagrito - (1993) - novelette
  • Hellado - (1993) - novelette
  • Our Lady of the Machine - (1994) - novelette

Sanctuary

Montezuma Strip

Alan Dean Foster

This novella originally appeared in Amazing Stories, November 1988. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (1989), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Montezuma Strip (1995).

The Mocking Program

Montezuma Strip

Alan Dean Foster

Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen murdered corpses like George Anderson's, but never a case like this. The victim's ID doesn't match his DNA, Anderson's wife and preteen daughter, Katla, are missing, their home has been turned into a time bomb-and mobs from three continents are all hunting Katla. Relying on his training as a nearly telepathic intuit, Cardenas embarks on a search for clues that leads him from the Strip's sex parlors and stimstick clubs, where kids are deadly and music can kill, to an undersea hideout where computer crimes are committed by criminal computers. Yet the closer Cardenas gets to the girl, the closer assassins are getting to them both...