http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: Best-Selling Titles By George Alec Effinger http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook442.htm Jehan nervously awaits the dawn in a dark alley, watching for the boy she knows will assault her, unsure if she will use the dagger in her sleeve ... this decision will determine which of the many futures from her visions will come to pass. Life on the streets as a defiled woman ... beheading in the public square ... or assistant to the German physicist who buys her life from the executioner's sword. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook2171.htm 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 had been a long time since that first experiment in time travel was successfully pulled off, although not without its flaws. Now, in the future, time travel was a lucrative tourist industry. But the time travel industry was keeping one little fact to itself: two percent never came back. This cover-up was the work of the Agency. The Agency knew what others did not: that the past wasn't really the past but a complicated dynamic of individual perceptions of what the past might have been. The past isn't real and reality becomes a state of mind. While selling their particular brand of escapist entertainment and vacation packages, the Agency didn't bother to tell its clients or the populace in general that a war was going on--a time war. The Agency was spending its time in a neck and neck battle with the Temporary Underground. The battlefield was none other than the space-time continuum, the weapons time shifts and theoretical mathematics. Hartstein had no idea what his trip would be or where it would take him. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook1261.htm Time travel: been there, done that ? or at least Frank Mihalik has. On February 17, 1996, Frank discovers the secret to time-travel, or at least he thought he had. He must embark on a voyage through time and space in order to set things right. He must survive parallel universes in which--Oh my!--Shirley Temple plays the awesome role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"! Only his love, Cheryl, can save him, but he is almost tricked by a parallel-dimension Cheryl and potentially wrecks his love life. How will Frank survive this wild jerk through these dark counter-universes? And will our universe ever be the same? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook4494.htm In these eleven short stories by speculative fiction master George Alec Effinger, New York's populace must deal with the realities of a bipolar existence; patients' brains are cut to tiny pieces in a clinical search for the medical definition of bliss; a little child's natural fear of the dark is exploded into new mind-bending phobias and a cartoon favorite pays a personal visit to an aging, aching fan. Humor, sheer audacity, and an eclectic array of human fears and expectations placed against each other all make this collection a perfect representation of Effinger's unique voice. He is a truly remarkable talent and one not to be missed. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook15460.htm On an alternate Earth of political chaos and harsh atmospheric extremes, Ernst Weinraub sullenly idles away his days and nights at the Cafe de la Fee Blanche. A carefully administered intake of alcohol fuels the regretful daydreams of the aging European as he mourns the loss of his creativity as a literati, his loves as man of passion, and his freedom as a permanent resident of an isolated city surrounded by the deadly heat and fiery sands of the 3000-mile wide African desert. [Publisher Note: This is the author's original, unedited version of "The City on the Sand"--more than 1000 words longer than its first publication in 1973.]