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In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this "wry and black and savage" Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin).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.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…
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- Title When Gravity Fails
- Author Effinger, George Alec
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 290
- Language ENG
- Publisher Arbor House Pub Co, New York
- Date 1987
- ISBN 9780877958512
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New York: Arbor House Pub Co, 1987. Book. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. Full number line. The text block is solid and square but has staining on top of text block and slightly down into the front though the spine is tight, boards rigid and tips pointed. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped but has stain around top as well, looks like it was coffee. Looks satisfactory in a shiny new mylar cover.
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Arbor House, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) ) Slightly smaller book, black spine, blue boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 290 lightly browned pages. DJ beneath mylar has yellow background to front and spine, color-illustration of armed man wearing Arab headdress on front, b/w photo of Effinger wearing Arab headdress. DJ and book, both As New.
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