| Budayeen Nights | |
| Author: | George Alec Effinger Barbara Hambly (foreword) |
| Cover Artist: | Joe Picacio[1] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Science fiction (cyberpunk) short stories/novelettes |
| Publisher: | Golden Gryphon Press |
| Pub Date: | September 2003 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 235 |
| Isbn: | 1-930846-19-3 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition) |
| Oclc: | 51511199 |
| Dewey: | 813.54 |
| Congress: | PS3555.F4B83 |
Budayeen Nights is a collection of cyberpunk science fiction short stories and novelettes by George Alec Effinger, published in 2003. The work consists of nine individual stories by Effinger, with a foreword and story introductions by Barbara Hambly. Seven of the nine stories had been published previously in other forms, such as magazines, while one consists of the first two chapters of Word of Night, which was to be the fourth book in the Marîd Audran series, following The Exile Kiss.
Budayeen Nights was published posthumously; Effinger having died in April 2002. The paperback edition was released in September 2008.
Most of the stories in Budayeen Nights had been previously published in magazines and fiction anthologies, but the book includes two previously-unpublished works of Effinger's.