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George Alec Effinger war ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor. Er wurde durch seine teils surrealen und teils humorvollen Geschichten bekannt. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Januar 1947 – 27. April 2002
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“Turmoil and revolution in their best guises serve to tear down ancient and meaningless customs, in favor of practical social reform.”

George Alec Effinger

Quelle: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 10 “The Final Struggle” (p. 160).

“Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.”

George Alec Effinger

Quelle: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 10 “The Final Struggle” (p. 160).

“I liked being the screwer rather than the screwee.”

George Alec Effinger buch A Fire in the Sun

Quelle: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 280).

“The night is this city’s single resource. Well, that and disease.”

George Alec Effinger

Quelle: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 14 (p. 217).

“You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.”

George Alec Effinger

Quelle: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 128).

“Sometimes the only vitamins I get are in the lime slices in my gimlets.”

George Alec Effinger buch When Gravity Fails

Quelle: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 27).

“With a stiff forefinger I silenced the koto music. Peace flooded in; the world thanked me.”

George Alec Effinger buch When Gravity Fails

Quelle: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 23).

“The universe doesn’t have secrets,” I said cynically, “only lies and swindles.”

George Alec Effinger buch When Gravity Fails

Quelle: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 63).

“His thoughts grew confused, and he mistook that quality for complexity.”

George Alec Effinger

Quelle: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 12 (p. 190).

“Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two separate but equal inquisitions.”

George Alec Effinger

Quelle: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 5 “In the Hall of the Mountain Thing” (p. 80).

“I was no more eccentric than your average raving loon.”

George Alec Effinger buch When Gravity Fails

Quelle: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 63).

“Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.”

George Alec Effinger buch A Fire in the Sun

Quelle: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 289).

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