History Creator / GeorgeAlecEffinger

His first published novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'', was nominated for a UsefulNotes/NebulaAward. He went on to write a wide variety of SF, from the comic fantasy ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'' stories to the dark ''Literature/TheWolvesOfMemory'' (a novel based on his personal, long-running battle with ill health). He wrote an entire collection of short-stories about the future of sports, called ''Idle Pleasures'', and ''The Zork Chonicles'', a novel based on the early video-game, ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''. He collaborated with Creator/JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick on ''Literature/TheRedTapeWar'', and his novelette "Schroedinger's Kitten" won the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo|Award}}, UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Seiun Award}}s.

* [[Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace "The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays"]]

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His first published novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'', was nominated for a UsefulNotes/NebulaAward. He went on to write a wide variety of SF, from the comic fantasy ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'' stories to the dark ''Literature/TheWolvesOfMemory'' (a novel based on his personal, long-running battle with ill health). He wrote an entire collection of short-stories about the future of sports, called ''Idle Pleasures'', and ''The Zork Chonicles'', a novel based on the early video-game, ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''. He collaborated with Creator/JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick on ''Literature/TheRedTapeWar'', and his novelette "Schroedinger's Kitten" won the {{Hugo|Award}}, UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}, and {{Seiun Award}}s.

* ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson''

* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'' stories are all credited "by Bitsy Spiegleman, as told to George Alec Effinger". Bitsy is supposedly an old school chum of "Muffy" Birnbaum, who relays her tales to her friend whenever she gets a brief chance to visit our Earth again. Bitsy, in her turn is relaying the stories to Effinger, since he's a professional writer.
* {{Namedar}}: Lampshaded in ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'', which posits (in a narrated aside) that the Japanese government keeps a list of names to apply to new {{kaiju}}, as they turn up, just like weather bureaus keep for hurricanes.

George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) was an American ScienceFiction writer who lived in [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]], a city that influenced his work, especially his best-known work, the ''Literature/MaridAudran'' series (starting with ''Literature/WhenGravityFails''), which featured New Orleans' famous French Quarter transplanted to a futuristic Middle-East and renamed "the Budayeen".

His first published novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'', was nominated for a NebulaAward. He went on to write a wide variety of SF, from the comic fantasy ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'' stories to the dark ''Literature/TheWolvesOfMemory'' (a novel based on his personal, long-running battle with ill health). He wrote an entire collection of short-stories about the future of sports, called ''Idle Pleasures'', and ''The Zork Chonicles'', a novel based on the early video-game, ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''. He collaborated with Creator/JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick on ''Literature/TheRedTapeWar'', and his novelette "Schroedinger's Kitten" won the {{Hugo|Award}}, {{Nebula|Award}}, and {{Seiun Award}}s.

His first published novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'', was nominated for a NebulaAward. He went on to write a wide variety of SF, from the comic fantasy ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'' stories to the dark ''Literature/TheWolvesOfMemory'' (a novel based on his personal, long-running battle with ill health). He wrote an entire collection of short-stories about the future of sports, called ''Idle Pleasures'', and ''The Zork Chonicles'', a novel based on the early video-game, ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''. He collaborated with JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick on ''Literature/TheRedTapeWar'', and his novelette "Schroedinger's Kitten" won the {{Hugo|Award}}, {{Nebula|Award}}, and {{Seiun Award}}s.

* ''Literature/TheRedTapeWar'' (with JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick)

* "[[TalesFromJabbasPalace The Great God Quay]]"

His first published novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'', was nominated for a NebulaAward. He went on to write a wide variety of SF, from the comic fantasy ''Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'' stories to the dark ''Literature/TheWolvesOfMemory'' (a novel based on his personal, long-running battle with ill health). He wrote an entire collection of short-stories about the future of sports, called ''Idle Pleasures'', and ''The Zork Chonicles'', a novel based on the early video-game, ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''. He collaborated with JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick on ''TheRedTapeWar'', and his novelette "Schroedinger's Kitten" won the {{Hugo|Award}}, {{Nebula|Award}}, and {{Seiun Award}}s.

* ''TheRedTapeWar'' (with JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick)

* ''Nightmare Blue'' (with Gardner Dorzois)

George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) was an American ScienceFiction writer who lived in [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]], a city that influenced his work, especially his best-known work, the ''Literature/MaridAudran'' series (starting with ''Literature/WhenGravityFails), which featured New Orleans' famous French Quarter transplanted to a futuristic Middle-East and renamed "the Budayeen".