"The Ghost Writer"
| Title | "The Ghost Writer" |
| Year for Search | 1973 |
| Authors | Effinger, George Alec(1947-2002) |
| Secondary Authors | Carr, Terry [Gene](1937-87) |
| Secondary Title | Universe |
| Volume / Edition | 3 |
| Pagination | 61-73 |
| Date Published | 1973 |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia presenting a society of high technical ability that is strongly opposed to change or difference. The story focuses on "authors" who simply repeat fragments of the great writers of the past and one who, having admitted that he writes his own material, is eliminated. |
| Author Note | (1947-2002) |
| Full Text | 1973 Effinger, George Alec (1947-2002). “The Ghost Writer.” Universe 3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Random House, 1973), 61-73. Flawed utopia presenting a society of high technical ability that is strongly opposed to change or difference. The story focuses on “authors”, who simply repeat fragments of the great writers of the past and one who, having admitted that he writes his own material, is eliminated. |
