When Gravity Fails
Language: English
Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, 1987
Series: Book 1 of 3 - The Budayeen Cycle
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Since college, Steven Allard and Benjamin Raines have competed to be the first to make genuine alien contact. Corporate mega-science versus home-grown improvisation. Now they both apparently succeed at the same time -- but one such contact is a transmission, and the other seems to be a ghost. What Steven calls the Envoy offers enormous benefits to humankind on Earth. But Ben receives another, more sinister Creature who warns against the Envoy's generosity. It's all a false handshake as a prelude to stripping Earth of every single consumable resource . but how do you say no to an instant cure for cancer? Ben Raines must race time and go to war against his best friend to try and stop the Earth from being ravaged. And how can he prove the Creature is not just another greedy invader.
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- Title
- When Gravity Fails
- Author
- George Alec Effinger
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 055325555X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553255553
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: The Budayeen Cycle
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About the Author
A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, George Alec Effinger was the author of What Entropy Means to Me and Schrodinger's Kitten. He died in 2002.
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