When Gravity Fails - Softcover

Effinger, George Alec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055325555X ISBN 13: 9780553255553

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1987

Synopsis

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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"Like a dive into the eye of a storm."
--" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The "" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Washington"" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Post Book World" on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"Fast, cool, clever, beautifully written, absolutely authoritative. A kind of cyberpunk Raymond Chandler book with dashes of Roger Zelazny, Ian Fleming, and Scheherezade--but altogether original."
--Robert Silverberg on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails" "Ingenious, layered, sophisticated, and consistently bloodcurdling," style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails" kept me awake long after I had finished reading it.
--Spider Robinson
"Great entertainment...Places Effinger in the company of writers like Gibson."
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"Superior science fiction . . . among the best I've come across."--" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The "" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Denver"" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Post" on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"A brilliantly written, knife-edged futuristic detective story . . . destined to be the year's most intense and emotionally involving SF work."--" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Houston"" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Post" on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"Wry and black and savage... there's a knife behind every smile."-- George R. R. Martin on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"Muscular, convincing, yet continuouslysurprising."--Richard A. Lupoff on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"One of the best cyberpunk novels I've read . . . Effinger's prose is terse, direct, vivid and often laced with an enchanting sense of humor . . . this is only part of the book's delightful texture . . . gives you a real sense of what it's like to be an old-fashioned gumshoe in the seedy backreaches of a futuristic arab nation."--" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Providence Sunday Journal" on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"Wry, inventive, nearly hallucinatory . . . a well-written, baroque riff on the time-honored themes of Raymond Chandler."--" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Publisher's Weekly" on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"This is the fourth or fifth time I've been asked to give a public comment on an Effinger book; and each time I've done it; and each time I've said you people are cheating yourselves if you don't forego food and rent to pick up on Effinger's work. Now, *this* time, will you for pete's sake listen to me and buy When Gravity Fails? It's as crazy as a spider on ice skates, plain old terrific; and if you don't pay attention I'll have to get tough with you! We have your childen and your dog. Buy, read and marvel...or else."-- Harlan Ellison on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"

"Like a dive into the eye of a storm."
"One of the best cyberpunk novels I've read . . . terse, direct, vivid and often laced with an enchanting sense of humor"
"Like a dive into the eye of a storm."
 

"Superior science fiction . . . among the best I've come across."
 

"Great entertainment...Places Effinger in the company of writers like Gibson."
 

"Wry, inventive, nearly hallucinatory . . . a well-written, baroque riff on the time-honored themes of Raymond Chandler."
 

"A brilliantly written, knife-edged futuristic detective story . . . destined to be the year's most intense and emotionally involving SF work."
 

"Muscular, convincing, yet continuously surprising."--Richard A. Lupoff

"Wry and black and savage... there's a knife behind every smile."--George R. R. Martin

About the Author

A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, George Alec Effinger was the author of What Entropy Means to Me and Schrodinger's Kitten. He died in 2002.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam USA
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 055325555X
• ISBN 13: 9780553255553
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 289