George Alec Effinger contributed regularly to the top science fiction and fantasy magazines including "Orbit," "New Dimensions," and "Universe,""" His novelette "Schrodinger's Kitten" won the Hugo, Japanese Seiun, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards. He published several novels including "The Exile Kiss," "A Fire in the Sun," "What Entropy Means to Me," and "When Gravity Fails,"""