When Gravity Fails

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781497605404

<DIV><B>In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this &ldquo;wry and black and savage&rdquo; Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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&mdash;who makes Audran an offer he can&rsquo;t refuse.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards, the highest honors in the genre, <I>When Gravity Fails</I>, which introduced the cyberpunk Budayeen Cycle, is a pioneering work the <I>Denver Post</I> called &ldquo;superior science fiction&rdquo; and Harlan Ellison described as &ldquo;crazy as a spider on ice skates .&#160;.&#160;. plain old terrific.&rdquo;</DIV>