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2	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 ''When Gravity Fails''), which featured New Orleans' famous French Quarter transplanted to a futuristic Middle-East and renamed "the Budayeen".
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4	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 MediaNotes/{{Hugo\|Award}}, UsefulNotes/{{Nebula\|Award}}, and MediaNotes/{{Seiun Award}}s.
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6	!!! Works with a page on this wiki:
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8	* ''Literature/TheFurtherAdventuresOfBatman'' (contributed "Literature/TheOriginOfThePolarizer" in the 1989 anthology)
9	* ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'' (the short story "The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays")
10	* ''Literature/MaridAudran'' series (''When Gravity Fails'', ''Fire in the Sun'', and ''The Exile Kiss'')
11	* ''Literature/MaureenBirnbaumBarbarianSwordsperson''
12	* ''Literature/TheRedTapeWar'' (with Creator/JackChalker and Creator/MikeResnick)
13	* ''Literature/TheWolvesOfMemory''
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15	!! Other works include:
16	* ''Felicia''
17	* The ''Nick of Time'' series (''The Nick of Time'' and ''The Bird of Time'')
18	* ''Nightmare Blue'' (with Gardner Dozois)
19	* ''What Entropy Means to Me''
20	* ''The Zork Chronicles''
21	* ''For Those That Remain'', short story in the White Wolf ''TabletopGame/{{Trinity}}'' roleplaying game.
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23	!! Tropes in his other works:
24	* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Skewered in the 1984 short story, "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything": the aliens who visit, called the Nuhp, really do come in peace, and really are willing and able to help solve at least some of Earth's problems. Unfortunately, they're also such an ''annoying'' bunch of know-it-alls, that their presence gradually becomes more curse than blessing. Eventually, humanity leaves Earth in droves to get away from the Nuhp... and the resultant population reduction solves the ''rest'' of Earth's problems by default. Turns out this happens on ''every'' planet the Nuhp visit, and space is filled with species that left their homeworlds to get away from them.

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