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114 ratings, 3.96 average rating, 9 reviews
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published
February 21st 2006
by Orb Books
binding
Paperback, 304 pages
isbn
0765313596
(isbn13: 9780765313591)
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Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth...more
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Read in June, 2008
This is a sequel to When Gravity Fails, which is a long-time favorite. The style is cyberpunk / noir / hard-boiled. The setting is a future Middle-East city (although actually it's based on the New Orleans French Quarter). The first-person protagonist is a street punk who's been picked out (for reasons unknown to him) by one of the local bosses for advancement.
I like the book because of the Middle-Eastern cultural setting; I haven't come across a lot of SF&F done in such a settin...more
I like the book because of the Middle-Eastern cultural setting; I haven't come across a lot of SF&F done in such a settin...more
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Read in August, 2008
Great! Great! Great! Science fiction set in an arab detective novel! I really loved it. It was gritty in the way the classic noir detctive novels are but with the added worldiness of Islam and Arab cynicicism. Plus really interesting technological developments. Characters are all fun and real.
I want to know what a White Death tastes like.
I want to know what a White Death tastes like.
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This is the second book in a trilogy. I just read it once; I do not really remember much of it except that I liked the first book and re-read it several times while I did not do the same with this. I never had the opportunity to get the third book ("Exile Kiss"), so maybe I felt this one was lacking closure. I don't know.
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The second in George Alec Effinger's Budayeen Trilogy follows Marîd Audran as he's assigned to be Friedlander Bey's liaison to the City's police department. Not as good as When Gravity Fails, but a certainly worthy novel.
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Sequel to When Gravity Fails, no loss in the quality of writing from one George Alec Effinger.
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Read in May, 2007
Finished this last night. What a lot of fun. Up there with the best of Gibson.
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Read in January, 1998
The sequel to When Gravity Fails. 'Nuff said. Excellent.
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Gritty cyberpunk noir in the Middle East.
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