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I just learned of the death of Eugie Foster.

Like so many, I just assumed she would win her fight. And now she’s gone and our community is dimmer as a result.

Go tell someone you admire how you feel. Go share a book that you like with someone who’s never known that author’ ( Read more... )

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Hard on the heels of the loss of Fred Pohl, word comes today that Ann Crispin has died. It was just over a month ago, when I dropped in at Shore Leave, that I saw her last.

I knew Ann as an author of Star Trek novels, a tireless workshop-runner, and more indirectly as a ( Read more... )

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Word has come that Frederik Pohl died earlier today, at the age of 93.

Years ago, when I was attending James Gunn’s writers’ workshop, I had the great pleasure to have dinner at the University of Kansas’s Faculty Club. Present were James Gunn, Kij Johnson, Chris McKitterick, ( Read more... )

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Another year has ended. It’s been a pretty good one, all in all. But this next one… it is going to be beyond anything I have ever known. Some things have happened that I can’t quite go public with (probably in another week or so), but it’s fair to say that my entire life will ( Read more... )

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I’ve only just learned that Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. left us earlier this month. He was 61.

I first met Kevin through his fiction. If you haven’t read his McGill Feighan books, you’re in a for a great treat (assuming you can find them).

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The internet is full of heart felt remembrances of Josepha Sherman, as word of her passing ripples through websites and social media.

I can hear her voice so clearly in my head, see the glint of wit and mischief in her eye. How can she be gone?