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| Title: | Thousand Deaths
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| Author: | George Alec Effinger |
| ISBN: | 1930846479 : 9781930846470 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 145x215mm |
| Pages: | 340 |
| Weight: | .56 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Golden Gryphon Press) - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Science fiction: Short stories |
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 of the inhabitants of Planet D succumb 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. Utilising 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.
