false 132694 6 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 cant refuse. The two hundred-year-old godfather of the Budayeens 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 not to be ignored, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic by Effingers fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of Marid Audrian novels it began were the culmination of his career. 127822 1987 When Gravity Fails total:316|5:107|4:141|3:58|2:7|1:3| 316 1290 425 49 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 02:51:53 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 02:51:55 -0700 2007
This book was fantastic beyond the dreams of mere mortals in every sense. The lead character - Marid Au...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 19 17:29:38 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 17:35:52 -0700 2007
It's a book that combines something I like with...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 12 22:52:33 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 04:25:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 07:27:05 -0800 2009 Mon May 04 12:15:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Wed Jan 30 08:22:09 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 08:24:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 12:13:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 12:22:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 30 20:37:08 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 20:37:08 -0700 2007
It wasn't because it wasn't interesting, because it was. It was extremely interesting, extremely inventive, and like nothing else I've ever read. A cyberpunk novel with an Arabic setting is fascinating, trust me, and the way Effinger handles the charac...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sun Sep 27 09:43:10 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 09:43:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 06 12:59:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:03:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 20:55:31 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 25 01:53:35 -0800 2009 Snow Crash. The story is set in a middle-eastern country (I didn't catch which one) where technology has advanced to where people can plug-in different personality types directly into their brain....more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 19:11:17 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 19:22:32 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 18:27:56 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 18:33:27 -0700 2008 Watchmen, another mid-80s sci-fi classic, have Dylan on the brain when the man himself was making the very worst music of ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 15 22:31:49 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 22:37:32 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 20:12:15 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 07:59:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 17 14:17:29 -0700 2007 Sat May 19 08:49:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 08:18:04 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 08:23:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 06:05:28 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 06:05:59 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 14:50:12 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:51:20 -0700 2009 Good ideas, and an interesting take on the whole Cyberpunk genre.]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Sun Jan 11 17:27:10 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 17:31:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 20 11:19:58 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:19:58 -0700 2009