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	George Alec Effinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947–April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Eventually the suit was dropped, and Effinger regained the rights to all his intellectual property.
		Effinger was married from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s to artist Beverly K. Effinger, and for a few years shortly before his death to fellow science fiction author Barbara Hambly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Alec_Effinger (499 words)

	George Alec Effinger 1947-2002 - SFWA News
		George was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1947, and attended Yale University.
		George was a fine writer, and a one of the funniest the field's produced.
		George experienced the occasional abdominal pain while we were eating, but he endured it, as he surely did thousands of times over the years of his illness.
	www.sfwa.org /News/effinger.htm (1106 words)

	Encyclopedia: George Alec Effinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Part of George's motivation in becoming the focus of any group he found himself in was his near-deafness, which hearing aids only partially compensated for; I'm sure it was much easier for him to be part of the conversation by dominating it, rather than trying to decipher all that his companions were saying.
		George clearly wasn't thrilled with the idea of compulsory sing-alongs with the choir on Sundays, and there was some question as to whether George would be physically capable of carrying out required duties in the warehouse adjoining the facility's large thrift store.
		George Alec Effinger (Cleveland, Ohio, 10 januari 1947–New Orleans, Louisiana, 27 april 2002) was een Amerikaans sciencefiction schrijver.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Alec-Effinger (1342 words)

	Andrew Fox : Essays & Fiction :: Remembering George Alec Effinger
		George made a few humorous jabs at my nineteenth century sailors' dialogue, which he pronounced too "salty" for his tastes, but he was very encouraging for the most part.
		George was bitterly disappointed by the editing process and by being forced to shoehorn inferior characters into the book, but he needed the money.
		George would potentially qualify for Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), but getting him on the programs would take months, and there was also the problem of getting him to the programs' offices to fill out paperwork when he couldn't be convinced to leave his apartment.
	www.andrewfoxbooks.com /rgae.htm (8083 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: George Alec Effinger
		George Alec Effinger, who has died aged 55, was one of science fiction's most humorous and eclectic writers.
		If Effinger never fulfilled his promise, it was at least partly for physiological reasons; he suffered from intestinal ulcers, and was plagued by inferior medical care, mis-diagnoses and battles against addictions to prescription painkillers and alcohol.
		Effinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and went to Yale University, intending to study medicine.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0%2C3604%2C719302%2C00.html (603 words)

	Locus Online: Appreciations, May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Alec Effinger deserves to be remembered not only for his talent and the many wonderful novels and stories he wrote, but for the generosity of his spirit.
		When it was George's turn, he said to the author, "I thought you had a plumbing problem." We all cracked up, and George proceeded to make the serious point that anything is possible in a science fiction story so the first rule is to be clear.
		George gave his time and attention to all of us, cutting through bullshit without brutality and pointing out what worked as well as what was wrong.
	www.locusmag.com /2002/News/Appreciations05.html (1200 words)

	Review \| George Alec Effinger: Live From Planet Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Alec Effinger was by all accounts, a super nice guy who had a lot of crap happen to him.
		While I can't speak to his accuracy in parody, Gardner Dozois says that in his "O. Niemand" stories, Effinger was spot on writing as a number of famous voices, from Ring Lardner to Don Marquis to Ernest Hemingway.
		Effinger's "Two Sadnesses," which includes a vision of when the Vietnam war came to the Hundred Acre Wood, is amazing work.
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/effinger.html (873 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: What Entropy Means to Me / George Alec Effinger
		Throughout, Effinger keeps us guessing as to which elements of the story are true and which are legend, as the entire story is Seyt's...and he's an embellisher, to put it mildly.
		It's remarkable how Effinger's extraordinary talents are so much in evidence even in his first book; Entropy may be trying to do too much, but it's the kind of excess you find in a fresh creative mind let loose for the first time.
		As well he should, Effinger is working with an I'll-do-anything writing ethic here, and the results provide a degree of excitement you don't often see in present-day, formula-bound publishing conventions.
	www.sfreviews.net /whatentropy.html (655 words)

	SF-Buch.de - Nachruf auf George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Alec Effinger wurde 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, geboren und wuchs in Armut auf.
		George begann mit einem Medizinstudium an der Yale Universität, daß er später aufgrund seines Versagens in Organischer Chemie wieder aufgeben mußte.
		Effinger, der auch weiterhin von Damon Knight gefördert wurde, veröffentlichte bald weitere Erzählungen und bald auch seinen ersten Roman "What Entropy means to me" (1972), der auch für den Nebula-Award nominiert wurde.
	www.sf-fan.de /sf-buch/artikel/nachruf_george_alec_effinger.html (573 words)

	When Gravity Fails
		Effinger really creates a twisted reality where a constant diet of narcotics, sex changes, and Godfather-like control over the city seem to be the usual daily background noise.
		George Alec Effinger wrote three books about Marid Audran, a private investigator living in the Budayeen, the red light district of an unnamed Arab country in the 23rd century (but in actuality modeled on the French quarter in New Orleans, where Effinger lived).
		Effinger has created a world that is unlike most science fiction books, keeping the actual science light, and letting us believe that this is how the Arab world might be in the 23rd century, with not much changed except a bit of technology.
	www.awardannals.com /detail/0765313588 (1076 words)

	George Alec Effinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 - April 27, 2002) was an USA science fictionauthor, born in Cleveland, Ohio.
		A lawsuit by the hospital tied up the rights to all of his books and characters, causing a dearth of Effinger material.Eventually the suit was dropped, and Effinger regained the rights to all his intellectual property.
		Effinger was married, mid- 1970s to mid- 1980s,to artist Beverly K. Effinger, and for a few years shortlybefore his death to fellow science fiction author Barbara Hambly.
	www.therfcc.org /george-alec-effinger-140898.html (300 words)

	George Alec Effinger -- George Alec Effinger (Cleveland, Ohio, 10 januari 19... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Alec Effinger -- George Alec Effinger (Cleveland, Ohio, 10 januari 19...
		Effinger startte zijn carrière in 1970 bij de Clarion Workshop voor aspirant SF-schrijvers.
		Uiteindelijk liet het ziekenhuis de aanklacht vallen en herwon Effinger de rechten op zijn intellectuele eigendom.
	george-alec-effinger.nl.tracking24.net (192 words)

	Review: George Alec Effinger's Budayeen Nights, reviewed by Colin Harvey
		he basic facts are these: George Alec Effinger was born in 1947, sold his first SF story in 1971, and almost immediately received a Hugo Award nomination.
		Certainly Effinger seemed to fade from the front ranks of SF from the mid-'70s onwards.
		Effinger's characters are Arabic Muslims, but intriguingly, given the quasi-hysterical times in which we live, recognizable as people, whatever their faith.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040517/budayeen.shtml (1263 words)

	George Alec Effinger, Budayeen Nights
		Effinger has said that these novels are really set in a thinly veiled New Orleans, telling the fictionalised stories of the transvestites, drug addicts, and other people he knew in that city.
		George agreed, stating that for quite a long time he's had an idea for a story involving Marîd's brother (the two were separated from one another at a young age), who eventually became the leader of Algeria.
		George emailed me around the first week of April 2002 that he planned to begin this new story the following week, after he finished the current chapter of a new novel on which he was working.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_effinger_budayeennights.html (2635 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Effinger's versatility is further on display in "Glimmer, Glimmer," a brief fantasy of revenge that originally appeared in Playboy, and "Housebound," a mainstream story about a woman's struggles with agoraphobia.
		The life and career of the late George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) was marked by critical success, commercial shortfalls, serious health problems and, all too often, staggering hardship.
		The SF community lost a lot when it lost George Alec Effinger, and Golden Gryphon Press has done a great service in pointing a new generation of readers toward the works of an author who richly deserves to be remembered.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue420/books2.html (645 words)

	Rambles: George Alec Effinger, Live! From Planet Earth
		Whether Effinger is constructing a science fiction tale as it might have been composed by Ernest Hemingway ("Afternoon Under Glass"), A.A. Milne ("Two Sadnesses") or Winsor McKay ("Seven Nights in Slumberland"), his command of tone and inflection is quite astounding.
		Lardner and Don Marquis, but I can only assume that Effinger's attention to stylistic detail is as acute in these pastiches as it is in those I can more fully appreciate.
		Effinger, who passed away in 2002, was an immensely talented and terribly unfortunate writer.
	www.rambles.net /effinger_live05.html (552 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: George Alec Effinger
		Bio: George Alec Effinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947.
		Effinger died in April 2002; he had been ill for several years.
		This version of "The City on the Sand" is also available in a printed George Alec Effinger short fiction collection, Budayeen Nights, now available from Golden Gryphon Press.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/GeorgeAlecEffingereBooks.htm (889 words)

	File 770 news - George Alec Effinger
		George's humor and accessibility at conventions made him a fan favorite, and in the dawning days of the Internet he was omnipresent on the GEnie Roundtables and Compuserve forums.
		George was frequently beset by severe health problems.
		George was in a white jacket with padded shoulders doing his best to look like Elvis Presley.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/mglyer/f770/page7.html (609 words)

	George Alec Effinger: When Gravity Fails
		The Budayeen is a rough neighborhood, and Effinger is not afraid to give graphic descriptions of the violence which occurs within.
		Effinger gives a nice view of Muslims and Arabs which counters their current representation in popular fiction and film.
		Perhaps the one place Effinger falls short is his description of the relationship between Audran and Lieutenant Okking of the Budayeen Police.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/gravity.html (601 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Budayeen Nights
		George Alec Effinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947.
		Before 1987, George Alec Effinger was a moderately well-known SF writer, appreciated by his readers for his literary style and sense of humor.
		And if you missed it the first time around, these stories are a wonderful introduction to one of the most memorable settings in SF and the characters, from Marid Audran to Chiriga the bartender to Bill the cab-driver, who bring it to life.
	www.sfsite.com /10b/bu162.htm (779 words)

	Budayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger and Barbara Hambly : Booksamillion.com (1930846193, Hardcover)
		George Alex Effinger's first short-fiction collection in nearly 15 years, these nine tales are set in Budayeen, the walled city in the sand, a city of dark shadows and even darker inhabitants, where a Raymond Chandleresque vision has been created--hardboiled, noir, futuristic--but with a twist.
		The sights, smells, and denizens of Budayeen are brought to life--from the city's sordid, decadent underbelly to the glamorous excesses of the sex industry.
		Also included is Effinger's best-known story, "Schrodinger's Kitten," in which a young girl's dreams portend myriad possible quantum futures, all focused on her encounter with a would-be rapist.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=1930846193 (149 words)

	Golden Gryphon Press - George Alec Effinger Live! Review
		The New Orleans writer George Alec Effinger, who died in 2002, inspired a devoted following of readers who appreciated his inventive language, skewed perspective, and wide-ranging intelligence.
		That, in short, is a perfect Effinger creation, twisting the world until we see it in a new way, his way.
		Effinger once said that his favorite word was "terrific," and that he had his characters use it as often as possible.
	www.goldengryphon.com /revgaelive6.html (447 words)

	The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf Paperback Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: E
		Effinger, George Alec A Fire In the Sky Bantam, 1990 (27407) 1st printing, slight wear, near F. Second book in the excellent Marin Audran series.
		Effinger, George Alec Planet of the Apes- Man the Fugitive Award Books, 1974 (AN1373) 1st printing, slight wear, near F. High adventure with the ape guys.
		Effinger, George Alec Relatives Dell, 1976 (7353) 1st printing, slight wear, near F. A dystopic science fiction tale of alternate worlds..
	www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/weirdpapere.html (3379 words)

	DarkEcho Review: A Scattering of Jades by Alex Irvine
		Effinger was attracted to the darker fringes of life.
		This publisher may have not offered anything "new" about the author or his work, but they have preserved the work and introduced it to those of us to whom it is all new.
		Hambly's otherwise fine introduction: GAE was not among the "founders" of cyberpunk as she wrote.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/reviews/budayeen.html (392 words)

	Postviews - past SF reviews, by authors, E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson" by George Alec Effinger
		In the third of Effingers Arabian cyberpunk series the detective Audran and criminal overlord Friedlander Bey are framed and exiled from the city into the desert.
		This time however Effinger is more interested in exploring his characters and examining the culture away from the city.
	homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au /agapow/Postviews/past_e-e.html (4624 words)

	In Which Our Hero: BOOKS: Live! From Planet Earth, George Alec Effinger (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		SF story collection from the late Effinger, who never quite reached the level of fame that he deserved.
		There are some fine stories here, such as "All the Last Wars at Once," a darkly comic story which takes identity politics to its logical conclusion; or "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything," a lighter tale of what must be the most annoying invasion in SF history.
		These are not parodies; Effinger isn't mocking the style of Thurber or Twain.
	inwhichourhero.blogspot.com /2005/09/books-live-from-planet-earth-george.html (324 words)

	George Alec Effinger, Live! From Planet Earth
		Then, as a tribute to Effinger, who passed away in April 2002, these friends each contribute commentary about their favorite story, offering insights into its writing, as well as personal anecdotes about the author himself.
		Effinger was such a good writer that one forgets he was really interested in many other aspects of life.
		Likewise, Effinger is shown at his best as a storyteller in the eight previously uncollected pieces -- seven stories and a poem -- that he wrote under the pseudonym O. Niemand.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_effinger_live.html (1126 words)

	Reviews for Budayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Alex Effinger's first short-fiction collection in nearly 15 years, these nine tales are set in Budayeen, the walled city in the sand, a city of dark shadows and even darker inhabitants, where a Raymond Chandleresque vision has been created-hardboiled, noir, futuristic-but with a twist.
		The sights, smells, and denizens of Budayeen are brought to life-from the city's sordid, decadent underbelly to the glamorous excesses of the sex industry.
		Also included is Effinger's best-known story, "Schrödinger's Kitten," in which a young girl's dreams portend myriad possible quantum futures, all focused on her encounter with a would-be rapist.
	www.galactium.com /books_BudayeenNights.html (170 words)

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