When Gravity Fails

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When Gravity Fails

Author:	George Alec Effinger
Publisher:	Arbor House, 1987
Series:	Budayeen: Marîd Audran: Book 1
0. Marîd Changes His Mind 1. When Gravity Fails 2. A Fire in the Sun 3. The Exile Kiss
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Cyberpunk Dystopia Human Development
Awards:	1987 Nebula Nominated 1988 Hugo Nominated 1988 Locus SF Nominated
Lists:	Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1980s
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Synopsis

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. 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.