Budayeen Nights: Stories

GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER

1947-2002

“Foreword,” copyright © 2003 by Barbara Hambly.

“The City on the Sand,” first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1973.

“King of the Cyber Rifles,” first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1987.

“Marîd and the Trail of Blood,” first published in Sisters of the Night, edited by Barbara Hambly and Martin H. Greenberg, Warner Aspect, 1995.

“Marîd Changes His Mind,” first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989.

“Marîd Throws a Party,” copyright © 2003 by the Estate of George Alec Effinger. Originally written as the first two chapters of Word of Night, the fourth Marîd Audran novel. Previously unpublished.

“The Plastic Pasha,” copyright © 2003 by the Estate of George Alec Effinger.

Previously unpublished.

“Schrödinger’s Kitten,” first published in Omni, September 1988.

“Slow, Slow Burn,” first published in Playboy, May 1988.

“The World as We Know It,” first published in Futurecrime, edited by Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai, Fine, 1992.

Copyright © 2003 by the Estate of George Alec Effinger. These stories were first published in slightly different form and appear here in the author’s preferred text.

Foreword and Story Introductions copyright © 2003 by Barbara Hambly Cover illustration copyright © 2003 by John Picacio

Edited by Marty Halpern