George Alec Effinger

Kirinyaga - novelette by Mike Resnick Schrödinger's Kitten - novelette by George Alec Effinger The Last of the Winnebagos - novella by Connie Willis Boobs - short story by Suzy McKee Charnas Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another - novelette by Robert Silverberg The Mountains of Mourning - novella by Lois McMaster Bujold Bears Discover Fire - short story by Terry Bisson The Manamouki - novelette by Mike Resnick The Hemingway Hoax - novella by Joe Haldeman

A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin - poem by Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov [as by Isaac Asimov and Janet O. Jeppson] Et Tu - poem by John Stallings Creation - poem by L. Sprague de Camp Stag Night, Paleolithic - poem by Ogden Nash An Epicurean Fragment - poem by Robert Hillyer Spaced Out - short story by Russell Baker The Coffin Cure - short story by Alan E. Nourse Silenzia - short story by Alan Nelson The Agony of Defeat - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II Epitaph on Rigel XII - poem by Sherwood Springer Epitaph on Ceres - poem by Sherwood Springer The Snowball Effect - short story by Katherine MacLean Pâté de Foie Gras - short story by Isaac Asimov The Available Data on the Worp Reaction - short story by Lion Miller Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden - poem by Gerald Jonas The Mathenauts - short story by Norman Kagan Coffee Break - short story by D. F. Jones Putzi - short story by Ludwig Bemelmans All Things Come to Those Who Weight - short story by Robert Grossbach Derm Fool - short story by Theodore Sturgeon The Heart on the Other Side - short story by George Gamow Blackmail - short story by Fred Hoyle A Slight Miscalculation - short story by Ben Bova A Subway Named Mobius - short story by A. J. Deutsch A Sinister Metamorphosis - short story by Russell Baker Something Up There Likes Me - short story by Alfred Bester A Prize for Edie - short story by J. F. Bone Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" - poem by Randall Garrett (variant of Parodies Tossed: Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" 1956) Neptune - poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North] Pluto - poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North] Jury-Rig - short story by Avram Davidson Protection - short story by Robert Sheckley The Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken - short story by Jon Lucas (variant of The Self-Priming, Solid-State Electronic Chicken) The Night He Cried - short story by Fritz Leiber The Big Pat Boom - short story by Damon Knight The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer - short story by John M. Ford Report on "Grand Central Terminal" - short story by Leo Szilard Ad Astra, Al - poem by Mary W. Stanton They'll Do It Every Time - short story by Cam Thornley No Homelike Place - short story by Dian Girard (variant of No Home-Like Place) Simworthy's Circus - short story by Larry T. Shaw A Growing Concern - short story by Arnie Bateman The Vilbar Party - short story by Evelyn E. Smith A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts - short story by Janet Asimov [as by J. O. Jeppson] Death of a Foy - short story by Isaac Asimov The One Thing Lacking - poem by Isaac Asimov The Merchant of Stratford - short story by Frank Ramirez The Wheel of Time - short story by Robert Arthur Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air - short story by Jack Finney The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie - short story by Anne Lear Pebble in Time - short story by Avram Davidson and Cynthia Goldstone Ahead of the Joneses - short story by Al Sarrantonio The Pinch Hitters - short story by George Alec Effinger (variant of The Pinch-Hitters) Swift Completion - poem by Brad Cahoon A Skald's Lament - poem by L. Sprague de Camp The Stunning Science Fiction Caper - short story by Thomas N. Scortia [as by Gerald Macdow] I, Claude - short story by Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver Out of Control - short story by Raylyn Moore Slush - short story by K. J. Snow An Unsolicited Submission - poem by Deborah Crawford Judo and the Art of Self-Government - short story by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Lulu - novelette by Clifford D. Simak The Splendid Source - short story by Richard Matheson MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie - short story by C. M. Kornbluth The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd - short story by Barry N. Malzberg The Critique of Impure Reason - novelette by Poul Anderson One Rejection Too Many - short story by Patricia Nurse Bug-Getter - short story by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor] The Last Gothic - short story by Jon L. Breen A Benefactor of Humanity - short story by James T. Farrell The Silver Eggheads (Excerpt) - short fiction by Fritz Leiber Adverbs - poem by E. Y. Harburg Dry Spell - short story by Bill Pronzini The Odds-On Favorite - poem by E. Y. Harburg MS Fnd in a Lbry - short story by Hal Draper

Zwei Astronauten auf dem Planeten der Affen Ihre Namen sind Alan Virdon und Pete Burke. Als Astronauten der U.S.-Airforce wurden sie unter harten Bedingungen geschult und mannigfaltigen Überlebenstests unterworfen. Doch als ihr Vorstoß ins All auf der Erde der Zukunft endet, sind Alan und Pete unvorbereitet auf das, was sie erwartet. Die Erde wird von intelligenten Affen beherrscht, und jeder Mensch – egal ob Mann, Frau oder Kind – ist nichts anderes als ein Sklave der Affen. Nach DIE SCHLACHT UM DEN PLANET DER AFFEN, FLUCHT VOM PLANET DER AFFEN und AUFSTAND DER AFFEN (TERRA-Taschenbücher 275, 279 und 283) präsentieren wir den vierten Roman zu der von TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX gedrehten Serie, die zu einem Welterfolg in Film und Fernsehen wurde. Weitere Romane der Serie sind in Vorbereitung und erscheinen in Kürze.

"In this pathbreaking new work, Elizabeth Grosz proposes a theory of becoming in place of the prevailing emphasis on being in social, political and biological discourse. Drawing on evolutionary biology, she explores the effect of time on the organization of matter and the development of biological life. She argues that factoring in the relentless forward movement of time throws new light on the ever-growing complication of social life, and also on political struggle." "Grosz juxtaposes the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson. Each theorises time as an active phenomenon with specific effects, with a profound impact on understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Deleuze and Irigaray".--BOOKJACKET.

In den letzten Tagen der sterbenden Welt Die Sonne flackert wie eine Kerze im Wind. Men- schenfeindliche Wesen durchstreifen die Wälder, Berge, Täler, Wüsten und Ruinenstädte der Erde: Graus, Erbs, Leukomorphen und Deodander – alp- traumhafte Geschöpfe biologischer Experimente, die vor Jahrzehntausenden stattgefunden haben. Die Macht der wissenschaftlichen Zauberer von einst ist geschwunden, die meisten ihrer Werke sind schon vor Äonen zu Staub zerfallen. Aber es lebt noch einer der Uralten, Mächtigen an einem unbekannten Ort. Der Name des Zauberers ist Simbilis. Ihn suchen zwei Männer, die seine Hilfe in An- spruch nehmen wollen. Ihr Weg führt sie über Länder und Meere – und in die Unterwelt.

Zach, a human boy who is actually an extraterrestrial agent for the Galactic Union, travels to California's Lassen Volcanic National Park on a dangerous mission to save the Earth from evil aliens known as the Syndicate.

Because he understood the language of the birds the son of Honest Hans found a way to save the king's daughter from the wicked giant.

Menschen unter dem Regime der Affen Im Jahre 3085 beginnt die Herrschaft des Schreckens. Die menschlichen Bewohner der Erde sind bereits seit Jahrhunderten von intelligent gewordenen Affen versklavt. Nun aber sollen sie ausgelöscht werden – so wollen es die »Dragoner«, eine Bande kriegerischer Affen, die sich zu einem Geheimbund zusammengeschlossen haben. Nur Galen, ein menschenfreundlicher Schimpanse, Alan Virdon und Pete Burke, die beiden auf der Welt der Zukunft notgelandeten US-Astronauten, nehmen den Kampf gegen die Terroristen auf. Nach DIE SCHLACHT UM DEN PLANET DER AFFEN, FLUCHT VOM PLANET DER AFFEN, AUFSTAND DER AFFEN und HETZJAGD AUF DEM PLANET DER AFFEN (TERRA-Taschenbücher 275, 279, 283 und 287) präsentieren wir den fünften Roman zu der von TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX gedrehten Serie, die zu einem Welterfolg in Film und Fernsehen wurde. Ein weiterer Roman der Serie ist in Vorbereitung.

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audran has kept his independence and his identity the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he is available ...for a price. For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the decadent Arabic ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audran has been made an offer he can't refuse. The two-hundred-year-old "godfather" of crime in the Budayeen has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to stop a killer with the powers of every psychopath since the beginning of time... Wry, savage and unforgettable. When Gravity Fails is a new major work of dark genius by one of the most celebrated talents in science fiction today--a cutting-edge, heart-stopping tour-de-force detective story about an insane future world not so far removed from our own. ... from the cover

Introduction: Competition! - essay by Isaac Asimov Run to Starlight - novelette by George R. R. Martin The Mickey Mouse Olympics - short story by Tom Sullivan Dream Fighter - short story by Bob Shaw The Kokod Warriors - novelette by Jack Vance Getting Through University - novelette by Piers Anthony For the Sake of Grace - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin The National Pastime - novelette by Norman Spinrad A Day for Dying - short story by Charles Nuetzel The People Trap - short story by Robert Sheckley Why Johnny Can't Speed - short story by Alan Dean Foster Nothing in the Rules - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp The Olympians - short story by Mike Resnick The Wind from the Sun - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke Prose Bowl - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini From Downtown at the Buzzer - novelette by George Alec Effinger A Glint of Gold - short story by Simon Hawke [as by Nicholas V. Yermakov] The Survivor - novelette by Walter F. Moudy