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</div>]]> 358993 1 349116 1 5 2005 George Alec Effinger Live! From Planet Earth total:8|4:6|3:2| 8 30 16 2 76471 3.90 2148 163 54475 3.58 3133 404 1221698 4.13 284750 26382 53438097 267223 358993 1930846320 9781930846326 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174077633m/358993.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174077633s/358993.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358993.George_Alec_Effinger_Live_From_Planet_Earth 3.75 8 Everything" and "Everything but Honor," both Hugo Award finalists, are among those included. Of special interest are seven previously uncollected short stories and a poem written under the author's pen name, O. Niemand. Introduced by Gardner Dozois, former editor of Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, these stories are uniquely written in the style of other authors including Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, and Mark Twain. Considered by Effinger to be "sympathetic homage" rather than parody or caricature, they present his perspective on how these noted authors would have tackled science fiction, such as "The Man Outside," the John Steinbeck-inspired story about a loner in a domed city on an asteroid deep in space.
</div>]]> 2005 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 00:34:44 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 23:44:12 -0700 2009 When Gravity Fails since it came out, and I recently read and enjoyed the other Marîd Audran books. So I wanted to find out if Effinger's short fiction was as good as those novels.

My overall impression was "mostly not." But even though I disliked a n...more...]]> 32502162 637062 358993 1930846320 9781930846326 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174077633m/358993.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174077633s/358993.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358993.George_Alec_Effinger_Live_From_Planet_Earth 3.75 8 Everything" and "Everything but Honor," both Hugo Award finalists, are among those included. Of special interest are seven previously uncollected short stories and a poem written under the author's pen name, O. Niemand. Introduced by Gardner Dozois, former editor of Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, these stories are uniquely written in the style of other authors including Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, and Mark Twain. Considered by Effinger to be "sympathetic homage" rather than parody or caricature, they present his perspective on how these noted authors would have tackled science fiction, such as "The Man Outside," the John Steinbeck-inspired story about a loner in a domed city on an asteroid deep in space.
</div>]]> 2005 4 0 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 23:01:03 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 15:07:05 -0800 2009 Everything"--not sure why, exactly, except I'd heard it was good. Whoever said so was right. It's an amusing little story, an interesting take on the "first contact" scenario and the idea that those who come to visit will be superior ...more...]]> 79167383 623445 358993 1930846320 9781930846326 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174077633m/358993.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174077633s/358993.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358993.George_Alec_Effinger_Live_From_Planet_Earth 3.75 8 Everything" and "Everything but Honor," both Hugo Award finalists, are among those included. Of special interest are seven previously uncollected short stories and a poem written under the author's pen name, O. Niemand. Introduced by Gardner Dozois, former editor of Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, these stories are uniquely written in the style of other authors including Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, and Mark Twain. Considered by Effinger to be "sympathetic homage" rather than parody or caricature, they present his perspective on how these noted authors would have tackled science fiction, such as "The Man Outside," the John Steinbeck-inspired story about a loner in a domed city on an asteroid deep in space.
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