WHEN GRAVITY FAILS
Language: English
Published by Spectra (edition First Edition), 1987
Series: Book 1 of 3 - The Budayeen Cycle
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- Title
- WHEN GRAVITY FAILS
- Author
- George Alec Effinger
- Publisher
- Spectra (edition First Edition)
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 055325555X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553255553
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: The Budayeen Cycle
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Review
--" 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."
--" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Fantasy Review" on" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">When Gravity Fails"
"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
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