Writer and fan, Jim Young, 61, died on June 12, a week after being admitted to a Fullerton CA hospital for emergency surgery on a brain tumor. Young was the author of two SF novels, The Face of the Deep (1979) and Armed Memory (1995). He also wrote a few short stories. “The Whirlwind,” appeared in F&SF (Jan./Feb. 2011), and “Spamhead,” appeared in ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012) died on February 1. Mayhar began writing science fiction in 1979, although she had been publishing poetry since 1949. During the course of her career, she published more than sixty novels in various genres, often using pseudonyms, including John Killdeer and Frank Cannon (for Westerns).

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, ( Read more... )

Martin Harry Greenberg (b. March 1, 1941) died on the morning of June 25, 2011 after a long battle with cancer.  Greenberg packaged more than 1,000 short story anthologies in a wide variety of genres over his length career.  Greenberg began using his middle initial at the urging of Isaac Asimov to distinguish himself from another Martin Greenberg ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )