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The Stoker Award-winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead and an all-new lineup of authors from every corner of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection—and with zombies!

Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds a kindred soul in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products.

He can be any legally authorized fictional character or dead celebrity he wants for six to eight hours, simply by injecting a DNA-laced cocktail into his brainstem. It's called Big Egos and it's the ultimate role-playing fantasy from Engineering Genetics Organization and Systems (a.k.a. EGOS). And, as one of the quality controllers for EGOS, he's the ultimate ego-tripper, taking on more artificial identities than advisable - and having a hell of a time doing it. Problem is, he's starting to lose the ability to separate fact from fiction.

Sergio ist 257421 Jahre alt und das personifizierte Schicksal. Er mag es von den Menschen herausgefordert zu werden und ist zur Stelle wenn ihr Leben entscheidende Wendungen nimmt. Er ist neidisch auf die schöne Bestimmung, deren Klientel grundsätzlich zu Höherem berufen ist, seine Freundin Glück kann sich immer nur für ein paar Minuten mit ihm treffen und Völlerei leidet unter Gewichtsproblemen. Den Unsterblichen sind Beziehungen mit Menschen verboten, aber eines Tages geschieht es doch: Sergio, alias Schicksal, verliebt sich in eine Sterbliche und beginnt an seiner eigenen Aufgabe zu zweifeln.

Sein Name: Nick Monday. Sein Charakter: zweifelhaft. Sein Job: Er raubt Menschen ihr Glück - und verkauft es meistbietend...