Malcolm azania (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Don't call fanboys Hamza and Yehat slackers. They're just way too smart for a job market that has beaten them down. But when old enemies from high school, an ex-CFL leg-breaker turned health food kingpin, a van full of mind-enslaving, thanatodelic drug dealers, and a mysterious Ethiopian woman named Sherem with a centuries-old secret crush them like the walls of a Death Star trash compactor, Hamza and Yehat have only two options: Be awesome. Or die.…

First Edition. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (20.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [vi],[3],4-531,[7]pp. This is a review copy, with the publisher's double-sided publicity sheet folded and laid in. Light wear to extremities and lower wrapper corners, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Publicity sheet with some creasing and a few small closed tears. Debut novel by the Kenyan-Canadian author, blending pop culture, Egyptology, science fiction, and gaming. "Coyote Kings is a contemporary urban fantasy about two friends super-intelligent fanboys Hamza and Yehat who dream of adventure and glory.only to find they've lost their way and their dreams in a world of minimum-wage jobs, actual adult responsibilities and the shocking absence of killer robots, cloned dinosaurs or interstellar spaceships. The arch-villains are a band of miscreant Trekkie/burglars led by a faux-Victorian dandy who has a penchant for liberally dousing his speech with bad sci-fi metaphors, the love interest just happens to be a 7,000 year-old Ethiopian supermodel/assassin with a yen for Alan Moore comics, and somewhere in there is a secret conspiracy by two wealthy third-world art dealers to take over the Universe-As-We-Know-It" (from the publicity sheet). Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Locus Best First Novel Award, and the Compton-Cook Award.…