num_pages: 288
description: In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hard way. 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.
language: English
title: When Gravity Fails
titlecomplete: When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)
characters: Marîd Audran, Friedlander Bey
genres: Noir, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Thriller, Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Crime
ratings_count: 7506
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: Orb Books