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George Alec Effinger was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Effinger was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published story was "The Eight-Thirty to Nine Slot" in Fantastic in 1971. During his early period, he also published under a variety of pseudonyms.
His first novel, What Entropy Means to Me (1972), was nominated for the Nebula Award. He achieved his greatest success with the trilogy of Marîd Audran novels set in a 22nd-century Middle East, with cybernetic implants and modules allowing individuals to change their personalities or bodies. The novels are in fact set in a thinly veiled version of the French Quarter of New Orleans. 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. He began a fourth Budayeen novel, Word of Night, but completed only the first two chapters. Those two chapters were reprinted in the anthology Budayeen Nights (2003) which has all of Effinger's short material from the Marîd Audran setting.
Effinger was known to close friends as "Piglet", a nickname from his youth which he later came to dislike.
Throughout his life, Effinger suffered from health problems. These resulted in enormous medical bills which he was unable to pay, resulting in a declaration of bankruptcy. Because Louisiana's system of law descends from the Napoleonic Code rather than English Common Law, the possibility existed that copyrights to Effinger's works and characters might revert to his creditors, in this case the hospital. However, no representative of the hospital showed up at the bankruptcy hearing, and Effinger regained the rights to all his intellectual property.
Effinger suffered a hearing loss of about 70% due to childhood infections, only helped about the last 10 years of his life by hearing aids. He did not drive most of his life, and only got a driver's license at about age 39 for check-cashing purposes.
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Marid Audran Series
George Alec Effinger - When Gravity Fails (read by Jonathan Davis)
George Alec Effinger - A Fire In The Sun (read by Jonathan Davis)
George Alec Effinger - The Exile Kiss (read by Jonathan Davis)
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Marid Audran Series
https://rapidgator.net/file/fc6b2963c46fb9672ffb15537fcda173/When_Gravity_Fails.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/5e2dc6683ff2ac698e868b9f7a74bb60/A_Fire_In_The_Sun.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/c25b2dce36c7ce62117168226c076512/The_Exile_Kiss.rar.html |
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