To quote from … The title is taken from "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", a song by Bob Dylan: "When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through".

(Michael Flanagan's cover for the 1976 edition) 4.5/5 (collated rating: Very Good) George Alec Effinger's What Entropy Means to Me (1972) exemplifies the elements of the New Wave movement that continue to fascinate me, i.e. George Alec Effinger, a prizewinning science fiction writer who laced his novels and stories with dark humor, died on Friday at his home here. (For comparison, the 1993 second edition was 1.3 million words, and … We’ve reached a couple of milestones recently. [JC/DP]We passed a couple of major milestones on 1st August: the SFE is now over 4.5 million words, of which John Clute’s own contribution has now exceeded 2 million.

The SFE gallery of book covers now has more than 10,000 images: this one seemed appropriate for the 10,000th. He was 55. Other stories he wrote were the series of Maureen (Muffy) Birnbaum parodies, which placed a 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. Before his death in 2002, he gained the highest esteem amongst his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. anthology purchases! Condition: Very good. George Alec Effinger. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1988. He was married from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s to artist Beverly K. Effinger, and from 1998 to 2000 to fellow science fiction author Barbara Hambly. Author: Effinger, George Alec. Our series of slideshows of thematically linked covers has continued to grow, and Darren Nash of … We’ve been talking for a while about new features to add to the SFE, and another one has gone live today: the Gallery, which collects together covers for sf books and links them back to SFE entries. When Gravity Fails is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer George Alec Effinger, published in 1986.

Effinger met his first wife Diana in the 1960s.

He died in New Orleans, Louisiana.

These resulted in enormous medical bills which he was unable to pay, resulting in a declaration of 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.

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SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia : (1947-2002) US author long resident in New Orleans, where he died before the flood; he was married (1998-2000) to Barbara Hambly, with whom he remained close. He was married from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s to artist Beverly K. Effinger, and from 1998 to 2000 to fellow science fiction author

(1947-2002) US author long resident in New Orleans, where he died before the flood; he was married (1998-2000) to Barbara Having become ill from intestinal ulcers (and other chronic disabilities) early in life, Effinger found health-care difficult or impossible to gain; his career was therefore hampered throughout by enormous medical debts, and after about 1993, when his health deteriorated further (and his debts ballooned), he wrote no more. Effinger met his first wife Diana in the 1960s. This copy of Relatives, by George Alec Effinger, is a mass market paperback, published by Dell [#0-440-07353-7, 1976. He did not drive most of his life, and only got a driver's license at about age 39 for check-cashing purposes. George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical Science Fiction. a fascination that compels my endless Orbit, Nebula, Universe, etc. He entered sf writing via the 1970 Clario