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magicdragon2

Back now, after Father's Funeral

May 28, 2005 18:39

I haven't updated my LJ blog since about August 2004, due to invasions from the mundane world, such as not having my Math Professor contract renewed, thus suddenly being thrust into search for a full-time professorship in Mathematics or Astronomy. More on that later ( Read more... )

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Follow-up to Samuel H. Post's Obituary magicdragon2 June 8 2005, 08:49:44 UTC

Short obits appeared as well at:

Locus Online:

Editor and publisher Samuel H. Post died Friday, May 20, of cancer in Wickford Village, Rhode Island, at the age of 81. As editor for MacFadden-Bartell Corporation in the 1960s, he published editions of books by Poul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, A.E. van Vogt, and many others. Ultimate SF Web Guide entry

Ansible 215, June 2005, From Dave Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5AU.

R.I.P.

• Henry Corden (1920-2005)...

• Frank Gorshin (1934-2005)...

• Joe Grant (1908-2005)...

• Ed Kelleher (1943-2005)...

• Samuel H. Post (1924-2005), US editor, publisher and anthologist responsible for many 1960s MacFadden-Bartell sf titles, died on 20 May aged 81. His son Jonathan Vos Post co-maintains the `Ultimate SF Web Guide'.

• Thurl Ravenscroft (1914-2005)...

• Margaretta Scott (1912-2005)...

• Noreen Shaw (née Kane, 1930-2005)...

• Harold Wooster (1919-2005)...

• Pat York...

[which is too much talent to lose in one month]

Science Fiction Writers of America: News

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anonymous July 14 2005, 18:42:57 UTC

I think William punched me in the face when I was staying with his father in Westchester in 1963. Sorry to hear Samuel has passed on.

Hard-hitting anecdote magicdragon2 July 14 2005, 20:23:19 UTC

Thank you for your sympathy. I'd love to know more about that Westchester incident, since my father did indeed live there roughly then.

Samuel H. Post's father, Harry Pasternak magicdragon2 February 22 2006, 17:30:21 UTC

When my grandfather Harry Pasternak (my father's father) became wealthy ... a penniless immigrant who rose to the founder of a stockbrokerage, and owned a seat on the New York Stock Exchange ... he told my father "you'll never want for money. Your children will never want for money. Your grandchildren will never want for money ( ... )

Re: Samuel H. Post's father magicdragon2 February 22 2006, 17:33:04 UTC

Science Fiction author S. M. Stiring commented (on Charles Stross's blog): "tsk, careless. You should always do generational transfers _inter vivos_, well before you kick off. It's a mystery to me why so many let themselves get caught by death duties."

To which I reply:

He (grandfather Harry) was not very old, nor apparently in bad health. He had a problem that was misdiagnosed, and mistreated, and he died. Today, that would almost always (in the US, this this class) become a Medical Malpractice case.

As a result, my father always intensely distrusted the medical establishment. And, as I say, because of the mismanaged Trusts, hated the legal and banking establishments. He himself delayed attending to the medical problem that, when finally diagnosed, was too far along to cure. This socially inherited avoidance of doctors has been maladaptive. So was it me -- or my genes -- that made me marry the daughter, granddaughter, and sister of doctors?

Samuel H. Post bio/bibliography, part 1 magicdragon2 March 3 2006, 18:35:33 UTC

Samuel H. Post, father of Jonathan Vos Post, husband of Patricia Vos Post ( ... )

Samuel H. Post bio/bibliography, part 2 magicdragon2 March 3 2006, 18:36:59 UTC

unacknowledged co-editor of several other books including "Thesaurus of Book Digests ( ... )