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THE COYOTE KINGS
OF THE SPACE-AGE
BACHELOR PAD

FINALIST:

The Philip K. Dick Award
The Locus Best First Novel Award
The Compton-Crook Award

A TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2004:

January Magazine, fiction
Barnes & Noble, SF&F
Amazon.com, SF&F
SF Site, SF&F, Editor's Choice

A Locus Notable Book

Don’t call fanboys Hamza and Yehat “slackers.” They’re just way too smart for an idiot job market that has beaten them into space-dust. But when old enemies from high school, an ex-CFL leg-breaker turned health-food kingpin, a van full of psychedelic, mind-enslaving 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.

Minister Faust's first foray into astonishing adventure, pop culture craziness and Africentric awe, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad is already a cult classic that had readers and critics fluttering with excitement.

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SHRINKING THE HEROES

WINNER:

Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award
- Special Citation (Runner-Up): The Philip K. Dick Award

The award-winning political satire (originally published as From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain), Shrinking the Heroes is a hilarious, outrageous, gonzo take on the Bush Administration, confirming Minister Faust as one of the finest novelists of his generation.

Shrinking the Heroes contains the book-within-a-book, Unmasked: When Being a Superhero Can't Save You From Yourself!, a self-help book for superheroes recounting the group therapy of six of the worst and most powerful super-employees of the Fantastic Order Of Justice (the F*O*O*J).

Superbly caricaturing a range of DC and Marvel superhero conventions, while taking expert aim at the idiocy, shallowness, hypocrisy and viciousness of the celebrity industry, the cult of therapy, and the imperial US presidency, Shrinking the Heroes will make you laugh, cry… and yell.

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THE ALCHEMISTS OF KUSH

Two Sudanese “lost boys.” Both from fathers murdered during civil war. Both from mothers forced into exile through lands where the only law was violence.

To survive, they became ruthless loners and child soldiers, before finding mystic mentors who transformed them to create their destinies. One, known to the streets as the Supreme Raptor... and the other, known to the Greeks as Horus, son of Osiris. Separated by seven thousand years, yet connected by immortal truth.

Both born in fire. Both baptised in blood. Both brutalised by the wicked. Both sworn to transform the world, and themselves, by the power... of Alchemy.

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WAR & MIR, VOL I:
ASCENSION

Taharqa “Harq” Douglass assumes that his best friend Thagó is nothing more than a muckle-mouthed immigrant doctor from Sudan (or is it Somalia? or Yemen?). But when high-tech terrorists blast into Thagó’s office, Harq accidentally discovers his friend is half James Bond and half Bruce Lee, and that he himself possesses a miraculous ability: chronosis—the power to behold the future. With Thagó as his protector, Harq must use his startling power to rescue a beautiful, brilliant diplomat in order to stop a war that could claim millions of lives… and the only path to survival lies through the doomed Soviet space station, Mir.

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WAR & MIR, VOL II:
THE DARKOLD

After the chaos in Naayt, Harq and Ti-Joto are forced into the dangers of Shr-Koioon, a savage land where the only laws are greed and violence. While fighting against cruel and vindictive new enemies, Harq and his young charge face new obstacles and new breakthroughs along their path to becoming chronostics. And while Kaiabreen gears up for a devastating war, Thagó and MarAset engage a top-secret mission that will tear the four of them away from Qorodis and into the terrors of the Darkold. If they succeed, they will transform civilisation itself. But if they fail… will they destroy it?

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THE GLITTERING VISTA
JUST BEYOND THE HILL

Minister Faust returns with a new volume of cyberpunk, technopocalyptic, psychedelic, and down-home-prairie fiction during the global bench-clearing brawl between the forces of fascism, industrial eco-destruction, and AI conquest, and the billions striving for a world in which humanity, nature, and technology thrive beside and because of each other.

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