중력이 사라질 때는 조지 앨럭 에핀저가 1986년에 발표한 사이버펑크 장편 소설로, 1986년 네뷸러상 및 1987년 휴고상 장편부문에 후보로 올랐다. 이 글의 제목은 밥 딜런의 노래 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'의 다음 가사에서 따온 것이다. "When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through" 21세기의 미래, 중동에 있는 가상의 도시 부다인을 무대로 사립탐정 마리드 오드란의 활약을 그린 이 작품은 큰 인기를 얻어 작가의 대표작으로 자리매김했으며, 같은 주인공의 이야기를 그린 …
A Fire in the Sun is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer George Alec Effinger, published in 1989. It is the second novel in the three-book Marîd Audran series, following the events of When Gravity Fails, and concentrating on Marîd's experience as he becomes the main lieutenant of Friedlander Bey's …
The Exile Kiss is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by George Alec Effinger published in 1991. It is the third novel in the three-book Marîd Audran series, following the events of A Fire in the Sun. The title of the novel comes from Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare: "O! a kiss / Long as my exile, sweet as my …
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson is a 1993 anthology by George Alec Effinger, with cover and interior illustrations by Ken Kelly. They collect all of his stories about Maureen 'Muffy' Birnbaum, a Jewish American Princess who is magically teleported to various fantasy and science fiction universes, and later …
Budayeen Nights is a collection of cyberpunk science fiction short stories and novelettes by George Alec Effinger, published in 2003. The work consists of nine individual stories by Effinger, with a foreword and story introductions by Barbara Hambly. Seven of the nine stories had been published previously in other …