When Gravity Fails
| Title | When Gravity Fails |
| Year for Search | 1987 |
| Authors | Effinger, George Alec(1947-2002) |
| Date Published | 1987 |
| Publisher | Arbor House |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Future dystopia of adventure and violence written as a mystery novel set in a future Middle East, which is the dominant area in a world where both the Western countries and the Soviet Union have broken up into smaller units. The novel has been called cyberpunk because people plug modules, known as "moddies", into their brains to become whoever they want. The sequels A Fire in the Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1989, The Exile Kiss. New York: Doubleday, 1991 have the same setting, as do some of the stories in a posthumous collection Budayeen Nights. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon, 2003. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Collector's Edition illus. Mark Maxwell and with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, O, PSt |
| Author Note | (1947-2002) |
| Full Text | 1987 Effinger, George Alec (1947-2002). When Gravity Fails. New York: Arbor House. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Collector’s Edition illus. Mark Maxwell and with an “Introduction” by James Gunn (v-ix) [Rpt. in Gunn, Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 79-82]. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. MoU-St, O, PSt Future dystopia of adventure and violence written as a mystery novel set in a future Middle East, which is the dominant area in a world where both the Western countries and the Soviet Union have broken up into smaller units. The novel has been called cyberpunk because people plug modules, known as “moddies”, into their brains to become whoever they want. The sequels A Fire in the Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1989, The Exile Kiss. New York: Doubleday, 1991 have the same setting, as do some of the stories in a posthumous collection Budayeen Nights. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon, 2003. |
