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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Arbor House Pub Co
Publication date January 1, 1987
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780877958512
ISBN-10 0877958513
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Original list price $16.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Set in a decadent Arab ghetto, this tale is about a tough man who resists corruption at great cost, in spite of drugs, personality implants, and murder
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
 
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.


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from Arbor House Pub Co (January 1, 1987)
9780877958512 | details & prices | List price $16.95
About: Set in a decadent Arab ghetto, this tale is about a tough man who resists corruption at great cost, in spite of drugs, personality implants, and murder
Paperback
Book cover for 9780553255553 Book cover for 9780765313584
 
Reprint edition from Orb Books (November 1, 2005)
9780765313584 | details & prices | 284 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $19.99
About: Hired by a two-hundred-year-old underground crime lord to carry out a vengeance attack, Marid Audrian is altered with sophisticated surgical implants that will enable him to counter a deadly killer whose abilities have been enhanced by the personalities of history's most notorious psychopaths.
Reissue edition from Bantam Books (January 1, 1988)
9780553255553 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $4.99
About: Set in a decadent Arab ghetto, this tale is about a tough man who resists corruption at great cost, in spite of drugs, personality implants, and murder

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