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When Gravity Fails
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Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes us into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware with plug-in memory additions and modules offering the wearer new personalities, and bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, an unmodified and fairly honest street hustler, lives in a decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, and holds on tight to his cherished independence.
Then, against his best instincts, he becomes involved in a series of inexplicable murders. Some seem like routine assassinations, carried out with an old-fashioned handgun by a man wearing a plug-in James Bond persona; others, involving whores, feature prolonged torture and horrible mutilations. Soon the problem comes to the attention of Budayeen godfather Friedlander Bey—who makes Audran an offer he can't refuse.
Nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards, the highest honors in the genre,
, which introduced the cyberpunk Budayeen Cycle, is a pioneering work the
called "superior science fiction" and Harlan Ellison described as "crazy as a spider on ice skates . . . plain old terrific."
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“the first quarter of this novel started out so strong: i was deeply intrigued by this futuristic middle east, by the religious culture, the drug culture, the trans culture. it was so interesting. but unfortunately, the rest of the novel devolved into a rather cliche whodunnit with little nuance or character depth. by the end i was left rather unimpressed which was disappointing because of how good the first part of the novel was.”
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About George Alec Effinger
George A. Effinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947. He attended Yale University, where an organic chemistry course disabused him of the notion of becoming a doctor. He had the opportunity to meet many of his science fiction idols thanks to his first wife, who was Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm’s babysitter. With their encouragement, he began writing science fiction in 1970. He published at least twenty novels and six collections of short fiction, including
and
. He also wrote and published two crime novels,
and
. With his Budayeen novels, Effinger helped to found the cyberpunk genre. He was a Hugo and Nebula Award winner and is a favorite among fellow science fiction writers.
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