@booklet {3815, title = {When Gravity Fails}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.\ Collector\&$\#$39;s Edition\ illus. Mark Maxwell and with an \"Introduction\" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.

}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Arbor House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Future dystopia of adventure and violence written as a mystery novel set in a future Middle East, which is the dominant area in a world where both the Western countries and the Soviet Union have broken up into smaller units. The novel has been called cyberpunk because people plug modules, known as \"moddies\", into their brains to become whoever they want. The sequels A Fire in the Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1989, The Exile Kiss. New York: Doubleday, 1991 have the same setting, as do some of the stories in a posthumous collection Budayeen Nights. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon, 2003.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Alec Effinger (1947-2002)} } @booklet {3279, title = {The Wolves of Memory}, year = {1981}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1982.

}, month = {1981}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of computer rule.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Alec Effinger (1947-2002)} } @booklet {2996, title = {Death in Florence}, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Utopia 3. New York: Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1980.

}, month = {1978}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Utopia 3 is a postwar project designed to reform humanity and lead to a eutopia of common understanding. The novel follows three people who become part of the project and the various problems they and the project encounter.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Alec Effinger (1947-2002)} } @booklet {2846, title = {"Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer, Well-Being, Gladness, Joy, Comfort, and Not having To Get Up Early Any More"}, howpublished = {Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology}, year = {1976}, month = {1976}, pages = {120-46 with an editors{\textquoteright} note (119-20)}, publisher = {Random House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the world has been entirely homogenized and is ruled by six men, with one of them arranging the retirement of the other five one at a time. He then retires and the computer that has been effectively running the world takes over.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Alec Effinger (1947-2002)}, editor = {Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) and Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018)} } @booklet {2566, title = {"The Ghost Writer"}, howpublished = {Universe }, volume = {3}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, pages = {61-73}, publisher = {Random House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Alec Effinger (1947-2002)}, editor = {Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87)} }