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George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger

George Alec Effinger was an influential American science fiction author known for his unique literary style and profound insights into the genre. His works blended elements of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure, gaining popularity among readers. more

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“The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.”

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Book:Deus Irae
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“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard
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