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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:When Gravity Failsby George Ale Effinger
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he’s available…for a price.
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can’t refuse.
The 200-year-old “godfather” of the Budayeen’s underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.
Wry, savage, and unignorable, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic by Effinger’s fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of “Marid Audrian” novels it begins were the culmination of his career. Review:"Muscular, convincing, yet continuously surprising."
(Richard A. Lupoff) Review:"A brilliantly written, knife-edged futuristic detective story . . . destined to be the year's most intense and emotionally involving SF work."
(Houston Post) Review:"A brilliantly written, knife-edged futuristic detective story . . . destined too be the year's most intense and emotionally involving SF work."(Houston Post) Review:"One of the best cyberpunk novels I've read . . . terse, direct, vivid and often laced with an enchanting sense of humor" (The Providence Sunday Journal) Review:"Wry, inventive, nearly hallucinatory . . . a well-written, baroque riff on the time-honored themes of Raymond Chandler."
(Publisher's Weekly) Review:"It's as crazy as a spider on ice skates, plain old terrific... Buy, read and marvel...or else."(Harlan Ellison) Review:"Ingenious, layered, sophisticated, and consistently bloodcurdling, When Gravity Fails kept me awake long after I had finished reading it."(Spider Robinson) Synopsis:Marid Audran agrees to help a 200-year-old "godfather" of crime defeat the psychopathic killer roaming the streets of their Arabic ghetto. But to do so, he must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to stop a killer with the powers of every psychopath since the beginning of time. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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