George Alec Effinger

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 05:49:06 MDT


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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 05:42:51 -0500
From: Joyce Scrivner <kscriv@earthlink.net>
To: <move along, nothing to see here>
Subject: George Alec Effinger

A note on a fannish list directed me to this:

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 From: Alex Jay Berman (smeghead@erols.com)
 Subject: George Alec Effinger, SF/F Writer, 1947-2002
 Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
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 Date: 2002-04-27 19:55:15 PST

 Harlan Ellison reports being informed by Barbara Hambly, Effinger's
ex-wife, that Effinger, a Hugo and Nebula Award winner, died in his
sleep Friday night.

 Starting in 1972 with his audaciously imaginative first novel, WHAT
ENTROPY MEANS TO ME, Effinger was nominated many times for both awards
before his novelette "Schrodinger's Kitten" won a 1988 Hugo and Nebula
each.

 It's been a bad month for writers of speculative fiction: R.A.
Lafferty, Henry Slesar, Damon Knight, and now Effinger ...

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