When Gravity Fails
Language: English
Published by Arbor House Pub Co, New York, 1987
Series: Book 1 of 3 - The Budayeen Cycle
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Winding Road Books, Templeton, CA, U.S.A.Winding Road Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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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.
Seller Inventory # 001312
- Title
- When Gravity Fails
- Author
- Effinger, George Alec
- Publisher
- Arbor House Pub Co, New York
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Dust jacket
- Very Good Minus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0877958513
- ISBN 13
- 9780877958512
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: The Budayeen Cycle
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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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