A Thousand Deaths

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781497605527

When we first meet Courane, he must face down TECT, the self-aware computer that has come to control Earth and its colonial planets. Exiled to Planet D, Courane races to cure the debilitating disease that attacks each of the planet&rsquo;s residents, even as his own memory begins to fade. Unfortunately, his only source of information about the illness is TECT itself, and the computer&rsquo;s agenda doesn&rsquo;t seem to line up with Courane&rsquo;s.<BR /><BR /> In the seven other stories contained in&#160;<I>A Thousand Deaths</I>, Courane begins to blur reality and fiction as Effinger expertly plays with narrative conventions. However, these are not simply the whims of a science fiction writer; they are the frameworks the Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;nominated author uses to answer questions about existence no one else even thought to ask.&#160;<BR /><DIV>&#160;</DIV>While George Alec Effinger&rsquo;s Budayeen novel&#160;<I>When Gravity Fails</I>&#160;is perhaps his most famous work, his lesser-known novel&#160;<I>The Wolves of Memory</I>&#160;remained his favorite. In it, he introduced readers to Sandor Courane, an everyman and Effinger stand-in who struggles as he swims against the currents of fate. In life and in his multiple deaths, Sandor Courane serves as the unifying force in this collection of Effinger&rsquo;s stories, starting with&#160;<I>The Wolves of Memory</I>&#160;and getting ever more clever and off the wall from there.