George's works will continue to delight readers and influence other writers long after his death in a tiny apartment on Elysian Fields Avenue. As a new audience discovers his stories and novels, the bright spark that was at the core of George Alec Effinger experiences a thousand rebirths. And we, his admirers and friends, can hope that, like Sandor Courane's diary, this book will be passed from hand to hand and will cause its readers to ponder. Perhaps, like TECT's imperious and heartless rule, our nation's inequitable patchwork system of health insurance will be found to deserve dismantlement. Perhaps, like at the end of "Fatal Disk Error," a bad and outmoded system will then be replaced with something better and more humane.
I think George and Sandor would both like that.
Andrew Fox
New Orleans
May 2006
All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Wolves of Memory, first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981.
“Fatal Disk Error,” first published in Amazing, May 1990. “In the Wings,” first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1982.
“From the Desk of,” first published in Night Cry, Fall 1986.
“The Wicked Old Witch,” first published in Betcha Can't Read Just One, edited by Alan Dean Foster and Martin H. Greenberg, Ace Books, 1993.
“Mango Red Goes to War,” first published in Aladdin: Master of the Lamp, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, Daw Books, 1992.
“The Thing from the Slush,” first published in Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1982.
“Posterity,” first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1988.
Copyright © 2007 by The Estate of George Alec Effinger
Introduction copyright © 2007 by Mike Resnick
Afterword copyright © 2007 by Andrew Fox
Cover design by Open Road Integrated Media
ISBN 978-1-4976-0552-7
This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
345 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
www.openroadmedia.com
A Thousand Deaths Page 41
