When Gravity Fails
Marid Audran Trilogy, Book 1
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Jonathan Davis
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George Alec Effinger
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In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hard way. 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.
©1987 George Alec Effinger (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
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Most of the book was boring as hell and the story was uninspired and bland.
I didn't buy the tech elements, the middle eastern setting felt really inauthentic and generic and I didn't care for a single character in the book.
I know a protagonist doesn't need to be likable, but the author could've at least made him interesting. 1/4 of the book was just descriptions of Marid taking street drugs with corny names.
Also the book has a tech element but apart from that it's just a below-average hard boiled detective / noir fiction, not cyberpunk.
And finally, what's the authors problem with women and especially trans women? I bet he thought of himself as progressive or something when he wrote this, but holy shit why was he so weird about this?
Women are either "ugly and weird" or sex objects and the trans women Marid is friends with (aka. has or had sex with) are described in quite dehumanizing ways and constantly called "sex changes".
Yyyyyikes. I wanted to finish this book, but damn, it was hard.
The end was pretty okay again, but this could've been a short story, not a 280 page book.
CN: Racism (N-Word and other), Sexism, Rape, Transphobia, Transmisogyny, Misogynoir, Pedophilia, Drugs, Gore(Mild)
Bland and yucky...
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