A Fire in the Sun [SIGNED]

George Alec Effinger

ISBN 10: 0385263244 / ISBN 13: 9780385263245

Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1989

About this Item

Hardcover edition, with dust jacket. "First Edition" on its copyright page. Tipped in is the title page from a trade paper edition of this novel, which is inscribed by the author, "To Barry Wood -- With Best Wishes, George Alec Effinger". This book is in very good condition, marred only by a trace of spine lean, light bumps on spine ends, and some very shallow "waviness" to the bottom corner of the last few pages from a very brief encounter with clear water. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in near fine condition: whole, bright, and unmarked, with a trace of wear on spine ends, but otherwise unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Seller Inventory # 003059

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Fire in the Sun [SIGNED]

Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, NY

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world. During the day, Marid is a policeman€Šand Bey's personal envoy to the police. His new position has brought him money and power which he would abandon in a moment if he could return to a life of neither owning nor being owned. Which, unfortunately, isn't one of his options.It's also not an issue. For something dark is afoot. Something that is sending the city into chaos. Helping a child-mutilator to avoid arrest. Sending a killer to murder Marid's partner. Murdering prostitutes and savaging their remains. Signs point to the hand of Abu Adil--the one man in the city whose power riva

About the Author:

A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER was the author of What Entropy Means to Me, Schrodinger's Kitten, and the "Marid Audrian" sequence that begins with When Gravity Fails. He died in 2002.