Series
Marîd Audran
George Alec Effinger · 3 novels · 1 novella · 2 novelettes · 1987–2003
George Alec Effinger's Marîd Audran novels follow a small-time hustler in the Budayeen, a rundown Arab quarter of a future Mediterranean city, who is drawn into violence after a killer using stolen personality-implant technology begins terrorizing the district. Beginning with When Gravity Fails (1986), a Hugo and Nebula finalist, Audran is forced to accept illegal cybernetic modifications himself as the story continues through A Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss. The books blend hardboiled noir with cyberpunk technology in an Arabic-influenced future setting.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Marîd Audran at the centre, 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
- 1980s3
- 1990s2
- 2000s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 2 novelettes
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguemiddle eastnear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- When Gravity Failsdarkest · calmest
- Marîd Changes His Mindbrightest · most intense