George Alec Effinger
Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
January 10, 1947
Died
April 27, 2002
Genre
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When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)
37 editions
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1986
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A Fire in the Sun (Marîd Audran, #2)
29 editions
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1989
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The Exile Kiss (Marîd Audran, #3)
28 editions
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published
1991
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Budayeen Nights
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14 editions
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2003
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Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson
5 editions
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published
1993
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What Entropy Means to Me
18 editions
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published
1972
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The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss
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Schrödinger's Kitten
6 editions
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1988
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The Zork Chronicles (Infocom, #5)
2 editions
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1990
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The Wolves Of Memory
4 editions
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1981
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“Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the determined little nuhp cruises along for days until at last he reaches his goal. It's all a matter of superior intellect and the will to succeed.
Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have.”
― Live! from Planet Earth
Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have.”
― Live! from Planet Earth
“I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.”
― When Gravity Fails
― When Gravity Fails
“You want to be grateful for every precious second, but you simply can’t do it. It’s not in human nature to live life to the fullest. Haven’t you ever noticed that equal amounts of pain and joy are not, in fact, equal in duration? Pain drags on until you wonder if life will ever be bearable again; pleasure, though, once it’s reached its peak, fades faster than a trodden gardenia, and your memory searches in vain for the sweet scent.”
― When Gravity Fails
― When Gravity Fails
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