An EDGE Books recommended author

was born in Clevenland, Ohio on January 10, 1947.

His first novel, What Entropy Means to Me, was nominated for the Nebula Award. He achieved his greatest success with the trilogy of Marîd Audran novels set in a 21st century Middle East, with cybernetic implants and modules allowing individuals to change their personalities or bodies. The novels are in fact set in a thinly veiled version of the French Quarter of New Orleans, telling the fictionalized stories of the transvestites and other people Effinger knew in the bars of that city. The three published novels were When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss. He began a fourth Budayeen novel, Word of Night, but completed only the first two chapters. Those two chapters were reprinted posthumously in the anthology Budayeen Nights which has all of Effinger's short material from the Marîd Audran setting.

His novelette, "Schrödinger's Kitten", received both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, as well as the Japanese Seiun Award.

George often joked, more than half seriously, that some of the other stories he wrote which were a series of Maureen (Muffy) Birnbaum parodies, which placed a preppy into a variety of science fictional, fantasy, and horror scenarios, would be his greatest legacy.

He died in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 27, 2002. We miss him.