Effinger replies to me

I posted a couple of weeks ago about Infocom tie-in novels, with a bit of a digression on the work of George Alec Effinger. It turns out that I have a response from Effinger to relay! Not a response to my 2026 post, obviously. Effinger passed away in 2002. But his books were mentioned on Usenet in 1997. It was a thread about the "Groundhog Day" trope, which brought up Effinger's books The Nick of Time and The Bird of Time. (The first Effinger that I read, as it happens.) Anyhow, someone made a rather dismissive comment to the effect of "...before Mr. Effinger ran out of ideas and was reduced to writing things like 'The Zork Chronicles'." And guess who showed up to riposte? Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction Subject: Re: Groundhog Day as Interactive Fiction Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:41:42 -0600 From: g.effinger2@genie.com I've read with a lack of amusement the opinion that I wrote THE ZORK CHRONICLES because I ran out of ideas. Generally, I don't respond to negative opinions of my…