About the Author

George Alec Effinger is the author of The Exile Kiss, Felicia, A Fire in the Sun, Shadow Money, and What Entropy Means to Me. His novelette, "Shr+dinger's Kitten," won the Hugo, Japanese Seiun, and Nebula Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He was also known for mentoring numerous aspiring writers through the science fiction and fantasy writing courses he conducted for nearly a decade at the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College."