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Ernest Weinraub, Ernst Weinraub, Ernst Weintraub{u2014}three slightly different versions of the same name, the same man. Each incarnation of Weintraub/Weinraub inhabits a slightly different version of our world: Ernest Weinraub lives in a maddeningly overcrowded New York, a hellish near-future world where sanity and life are imperiled by a nightmare of pollution, overpopulation and manic power games played by the six despotic men who rule Earth; Ernst Weinraub is a poet and an intellectual who lives in a decadent world in which America has never been colonized, Europe and Asia are crumbling, and Africa has only one populated city, a world where drink, drugs and sex reduce human being to little more than animals and a man feels himself being sucked under with all the others; Ernst Weintraub, an idealistic revolutionary, lives in a world in which the Allies lost the First World War to ?Jermany? and people are forced into a terror-ridden underground existence as tyranny rides roughshod over man and civilization.The single factor uniting these startlingly different worlds is Weinraub/Weintraub. But even he is molded and distorted, it would appear, by the various environments and societ

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Author

George Alec Effinger

Publisher

Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060111496

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Science Fiction

Rating

1 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24