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Название книги: When Gravity Fails
Автор(ы): George Effinger
Жанр: Боевая фантастика
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Amber.“And some there be which have no memorial.”
… He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world … He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks — that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.—Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder”
When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez and it’s Eastertime tooAnd your gravity fails and negativity don’t pull you throughDon’t put on any airs when you’re down on Rue Morgue AvenueThey got some hungry women there and they really make a mess out of you.—Bob Dylan, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Chapter 1
Chiriga’s nightclub was right in the middle of the Budayeen, eight blocks from the eastern gate, eight blocks from the cemetery. It was handy to have the graveyard so close-at-hand. The Budayeen was a dangerous place and everyone knew it