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A Fire in the Sun

(1989)
(The second book in the Marid Audran series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1990 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1990 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)

In this book, Marid works as a policeman in the Budayeen (a walled portion in an anonymous Islamic city, where pretty much anything goes) and making sure that his patron's interests within the police are taken care of. At it's heart, like the first book, it's a mystery..but one with a colorful (to say the least) cast of characters. There is a focus on cybernetics, landing the book squarely in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre, but the electronic gizmos are not the focus of the story. The levels of sex and drug use, and to a slightly lesser extent the violence, in these books is astounding but I don't feel it took anything away from the story.


Genre: Science Fiction

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