The Last Full Measure

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by George Alec Effinger

Corporal Bo Staefler lands and dies on Normandy Beach on D-Day, after which an alien brings him back to life and asks him to do it all again (and again), making sure to pay attention to all the details.

He went through every moment, every step, every ragged breath, every slow, wading, stumbling yard through the cold water to the beach. And it all felt the same, as though he were just a spectator. The shell exploded. Staefler died a second time.

“The Last Full Measure” by George Alec Effinger, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 1978.

The Pinch-Hitters

by George Alec Effinger

Sandor Courane and four other up-and-coming sf writers are snagged from their hotel at a 1979 convention in New Orleans only to wake up the next morning as five insignificant major league ballplayers in 1954—and the aging Sandor is hitting only .221.

I felt angry. I wanted to show that kid, but there wasn’t anything I could show him, with the possible exception of sentence structure.

“The Pinch-Hitters” by George Alec Effinger, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1979.