Series
Budayeen
George Alec Effinger · 3 novels · 1 novella · 5 novelettes · 3 short stories · 1 collection · 1973–2003
George Alec Effinger's Budayeen sequence reimagines the French Quarter of New Orleans as a 22nd-century red-light district in a future Middle Eastern city, where body modification has gone electronic: cybernetic 'moddies' and 'daddies' let people plug in new personalities and skills at will. Its hero, hustler-turned-investigator Marid Audran, works the Budayeen's back alleys across the novels When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss. Budayeen Nights, published after Effinger's death, gathers his shorter fiction set in the same neon-lit quarter.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Marîd Audran(6 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Budayeen at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s6
- 1990s3
- 2000s3
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 5 novelettes · 3 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionorganized crimemiddle eastnear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 13 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- When Gravity Failsdarkest · calmest
- Marîd Changes His Mindbrightest · most intense