The title of the novel comes from "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", a song by Bob Dylan: "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun / crying like a fire in the sun".
Sun | Sun Microsystems | Chicago Sun-Times | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Great Fire of London | The Sun | Sun Yat-sen | Arcade Fire | Fire | The Baltimore Sun | Sun Ra | New York City Fire Department | Earth, Wind & Fire | The Sun (newspaper) | Grace Under Fire (TV series) | Grace Under Fire | Order of the Rising Sun | Sun Tzu | Sun Records | Chariots of Fire | The Sun Also Rises | The Sun (United Kingdom) | Sun Wukong | A Song of Ice and Fire | Sun Belt Conference | Chicago Fire | Toronto Sun | Sun City | Ring of Fire | Sun City Girls |
The three published novels were When Gravity Fails (1987), A Fire in the Sun (1989), and The Exile Kiss (1991); Effinger also contributed to the computer game Circuit's Edge (1990), set between the first two books.