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Format: paperback
ISBN:
8373845771
Publish date: October 27th 2006
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie
Pages no: 328
Edition language: Polski
Series: Marîd Audran (#1)
This book was different, in both good and bad ways. It’s a science fiction book in terms of its setting, but the story was really more of a murder mystery than anything else. It’s set in the Middle East, during the year 2172, and most of the story takes place in a ghetto area. Most of the charact...
I was pretty amazed at Effinger's clairvoyance. He was merely a little pessimistic about how long the technological and cultural changes he envisioned would take to occur.Marid, the protagonist, was born in 2172 — shortly after the collapse of both the Soviet Union and the United States. It's intere...
When Gravity Fails was pretty good, without ever quite achieving greatness. I enjoyed it, but the pieces never entirely came together and swept me away. It was, however, part of my ongoing project to read all the Hugo nominees for novels. It's going to take a while. This book is cyberpunk, with a st...
Goodreads ate my review again and I am once again very angry so I shall make the following comments in lieu of ranting:I liked this book quite a bit and I dearly hope the other two in the series are close to as good.This book makes me think more SF should be set in Muslim cultural areas because I fo...
The Audran Sequence seemed so promising with an interesting world in which many nation-states have fractured and the story is set in a city somewhere in Arabia. However, much of it fell flat for me. Part of the problem is that the series bills itself as cyberpunk noir, while it never really falls ...
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