num_pages: 276
description: In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marîd Audran has kept his independence and his identity the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he is available...for a price.For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the decadent Arabic ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marîd Audran has been made an offer he can't refuse.The 200 year old "godfather" of crime in the Budayeen has enlisted Marîd as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marîd 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...Wry, savage and unforgettable, When Gravity Fails is a major new work of dark genius by one of the most celebrated talents in science fiction today - a cutting-edge, heart-stopping tour-de-force detective story about an insane future world not so far removed from our own.
language: English
title: When Gravity Fails
titlecomplete: When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran #1)
characters: Marîd Audran, Friedlander Bey
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Noir, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Crime
ratings_count: 7508
places: Middle East
series: Marîd Audran
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Bantam Spectra