Gorgon Child (Mass Market Paperback)

by Steven Barnes (Author)

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Product Description
A virtual superman, a streetfighter trained by the Mob, Knight turns his awesome powers on those who created him. Fighting alongside his beautiful mate, he takes on a corrupt television evangelist who schemes to enslave America. The action-packed, near-future adventure sequel to Streetlethal.

About the Author

Born in Los Angeles in 1952, Steven Barnes began writing at the age of five, and since that time has published over two million words. His first published collaboration, "The Locusts," was nominated for the 1980 Hugo award, and his Outer Limits episode "A Stitch In Time" was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and won an Emmy for Amanda Plummer. He also wrote a one-woman show based on the life of Bessie Coleman (the first Black Aviatrix), been the Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine (he holds dan rankings in Judo and Karate), and served as the host of the world's longest-running science fiction radio show, Hour 25. Currently living in Washington State with his wife, Novelist Tananarive Due and his daughter Lauren Nicole, Steven is working on a series of novels set in prehistoric Africa, for which he recently spent two weeks on Tanzania's Serengeti plain.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st Edition edition (December 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812531523
• ISBN-13: 978-0812531527
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,264,878 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed it from beginning to end., November 30, 1997

By A Customer

It was a book that I could not put down after hours of reading the description kept me in the story with the characters, Icould almost invision being there. I read the book when it first came out and to this day it stays in my mind as one of the more compelling books I ever read. Although I can not say much for "Streetleathel" since I have never read it. It was not until just now that I knew that "Gorgon Child" was a sequal.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book, a few flaws., August 8, 1997

By A Customer

See my review for Streetlethal. The same review could apply here, except the ending of this book really did not seem believable. I think the main characters got a little overly lucky considering the situation they were in when the book ended

4.0 out of 5 stars Anti Hero, January 11, 2003

By	Carl Parrish "Browncoat 4 Life" (Mesa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Aubry Knight is without a doubt the best anti hero I've ever read. This was my introduction to Steven Barnes and so I didn't realize that the rest of the series wasn't as well crafted. (since reading this I've found other great books by Barnes but none of the of the others stand up to Gorgon's Child.) In the days pre XXX and Fight Club. Gorgon's Child showed how to be a man, and how being a man could make a hero out of the most unlikely subject.