Author: George Effinger

George Alec Effinger Date of Death: 26-Apr-2002 College: Branford (This obituary was published on TheGuardian.com and was reprinted on the Class Website.) George Alec Effinger was one of science fiction’s most humorous and eclectic writers. He burst into the field in the early 1970s, with a style that echoed the irreverence of the times. His first novel, What Entropy Means To Me (1972), drew as much on the knowing postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon as on…