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GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER




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A FIRE IN TOE SUN
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My grandfather, George Conrad Effinger, whom I never knew, was a police officer in the city
of Cleveland during the Depression. He was killed in the line of duty. This book is dedicated
to his memory, growing fainter now each year in the minds of those people who did know
him, except for his policeman's shield, Badge #374, hung with pride in a station house in
Cleveland.


Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they
forgive them.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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7e'd ridden for many days out the coast highway toward Mauretania, the part of Algeria
where I'd been born. In that time, even at its lethargic pace, the broken-down old bus had
carried us from the city to some town forsaken by Allah before it even learned what its name
was. Centuries come, centuries go: In the Arab world they arrive and depart loaded on the
roofs of shud-dering, rattling buses that are more trouble to keep in service than the long
parades of camels used to be. I re-membered what those bus rides were like from when I