Book description
Set in a divided near-future, THE EXILE KISS is author George Alec
Effinger¿s third book about the high-tech Arab ghetto called the
Budayeen. It¿s a world filled with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any
purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory
additions and new personalities; and bodies shaped to perfection by
surgery. Marid Audran, having risen from the rank of street hustler is
now an enforcer for Friedlander Bey, one of the most feared men in the
Budayeen. But betrayal and exile send Marid and Bey out into the
lifeless Arabian desert. Can they survive on their own? Will they make
it back into hostile territory? Will they find their revenge? With this
culmination of the sequence of Marid books, readers will quickly
understand why this series is considered one of the great works of
modern SF and a defining example of the cyber-punk genre. George Alec
Effinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947. He attended Yale
University, where an organic chemistry course disabused him of the
notion of becoming a doctor. He had the opportunity to meet many of his
SF idols thanks to his first wife, who was Damon Knight and Kate
Wilhelm's babysitter. With their encouragement, he began writing science
fiction in 1970. He published at least 20 novels and 6 collections of
short fiction including WHEN GRAVITY FAILS and THE EXILE KISS. As well,
he also wrote and published two crime novels, FELICIA and SHADOW MONEY.
With his Budayeen novels, Effinger helped to found the Cyberpunk genre.
He was a Hugo and Nebula award winner and a favorite amongst fellow SF
writers.
