Waking up to the sad news that Anne McCaffrey, the lady who taught dragons to fly and spaceships to sing, has passed away at the age of 85. She was the first woman to win either a Hugo, or a Nebula award, for short stories “Weyr Search” and “Dragonrider” in 1968 and 1969, and it is for her Dragonriders of Pern stories that she is best loved and ( Read more... )

First of all, to my lovely LJ friends who are sitting in the path of Hurricane Irene, take care and be safe ( Read more... )

Just come back from an entertaining evening to find the sad news breaking on Twitter that Lis Sladen, Doctor Who's much loved Sarah-Jane Smith, has passed away at the age of 63. I don't remember S-J from the first time around, I'm a little too young, but I loved the episodes she did in the new series, and The Sarah-Jane Adventures. And of course ( Read more... )

Just heard via nihilistic_kid that Diana Wynne Jones has passed away ( Read more... )

I was saddened this morning to be told of the death of Joan McNulty Pulver, a senior editor at Epress Online. Joan had been ill for some time, but she still managed to send out funny emails and keep an eye on things. She was a great supporter of new writers, and one of the people who decided to take a chance on "Hierath" when I sent it to her - ( Read more... )

From agirlnamedluna, this was an entry to this years LJ Idol and it the true story of a thriteen-year-old girl who made a mistake, and ended up taking her own life because of it ( Read more... )

Sorry, I'm being a total comment whore today, but I just heard the sad news that David Eddings has passed away at the age of 77. (from Stephen Hunt's blog at www.sfcrowsnest.com ( Read more... )