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In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this "wry and black and savage" Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin).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…
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- Title When Gravity Fails
- Author Effinger, George Alec
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 290
- Language ENG
- Publisher Arbor House Pub Co, New York
- Date 1987
- ISBN 9780877958512
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New York: Arbor House, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 290pp, blue cover w/black quarter cloth, blindstamped leaf on cover, gold lettering on spine. Dj w/clear plastic cover; author photo is Effinger wearing Arab headgear. BOLDLY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO Christopher Erhard on title page. George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Westwood Associates created a video game based on the book and Christopher Erhard designed and produced many of their sci-fi games, including "Circuit's Edge." In the inscription Effinger thanks him: "To Christopher Erhard, who's helping me to see these degenerates--George Alec Effinger." A rare and beautiful association copy of novel, set in a decadent Arab ghetto.
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