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Marîd Audran Series

This series delves into the intricate complexities of time travel and its unpredictable consequences. Follow protagonists as they navigate the paradoxes and potential parallel universes born from their journeys. Each installment explores the ethical dilemmas and personal sacrifices involved in tampering with the timeline. It's a thrilling adventure that will make you ponder the very nature of reality and our own futures.

The Exile Kiss
When Gravity Fails
A Fire in the Sun

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  1. 1

    When Gravity Fails

    • 284 pages
    • 10 hours of reading
    3.9(6590)Add rating

    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.

    When Gravity Fails
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  3. 3

    The Exile Kiss

    • 318 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    4.0(1423)Add rating

    The story follows Marîd Audran, who transitions from a street hustler in the Budayeen ghetto to the enforcer for the formidable Friedlander Bey. Just as he starts to relish his wealth and status, betrayal strikes when a rival accuses him and Bey of murder, thrusting them into a perilous situation that challenges their survival and loyalty. The narrative explores themes of power, betrayal, and the complexities of rising through a corrupt society.

    The Exile Kiss