''Circuit's Edge'' is a
video game
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developed by
Westwood Associates and released by
Infocom in 1990. It is based on
George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Writing career
Effinger was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology ...
's 1987 novel ''
When Gravity Fails''. The game is a hybrid
interactive fiction/
role-playing video game; it contains a window of text, a graphic window for depiction of the player's current location, and various menus and mini-windows for character statistics and other game functions.
Plot
The player assumes the role of Marîd Audran, a private detective. The game is set in "The Budayeen", an entertainment/criminal quarter in an unnamed city somewhere in the Middle East that is based on
. While running a series of errands/"business deals" for "Saied the Half-Hajj", a friend of Marîd's, Marîd is framed for the murder of a man named Kenji Carter. Although Marîd's influential patron Friedlander Bey clears him with the local police, Bey asks him to look into Carter's death. Doing so leads Marîd deep into the criminal underworld of the Budayeen.
Effinger's novel ''When Gravity Fails'' was the first in a series of three "Marîd Audran" books (followed by 1989's ''
A Fire in the Sun'' and 1991's ''
The Exile Kiss
''The Exile Kiss'' is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer George Alec Effinger, published in 1991.''The Exile Kiss'' copyright notes, First Orb Edition: June 2006 It is the third novel in the three-book ''Marîd Audran'' series, f ...
''); ''Circuit's Edge'' takes place between the first and second novel.
Reception
The editors of ''
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide
''Game Players'' is a defunct monthly video game magazine founded by Robert C. Lock in 1989 and originally published by Signal Research in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The original publication began as ''Game Players Strategy to Nintendo Games'' ...
'' presented the game with their 1990 "Best PC Graphic Adventure Game" award. They wrote, "An intelligent, literate, and thoroughly compelling sci-fi role-playing game, ''Circuit's Edge'' is the best cyberpunk game yet released."
Reviews
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White Wolf
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It may also refer to:
Organizations
* White Wolf (band), a Canadian heavy metal band
* White Wolf (band), white power oi band from the USA
* Whi ...
'' #22 (Aug./Sept., 1990)
References
External links
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Stay Forever: Circuit’s Edge: A conversation with Michael Legg(Transcription of an Interview for the Stay Forever-podcast on Friday, March 6th 2020)
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