Jerome Miller Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Not sure why this wasn't started before. Rest in peace to Tuck Everlasting author Natalie Babbitt. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/01/us/natalie-babbitt-dies-tuck-everlasting/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/books/e-r-braithwaite-author-of-to-sir-with-love-dies-at-104.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, age 96. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Mad idiot Don "Duck" Edwing passed away at 82. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 RIP exorcist writer William Peter Blatty age 89. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 On 1/13/2017 at 10:05 AM, odessasteps said: RIP exorcist writer William Peter Blatty age 89. And Blatty went to his grave insisting that he was a "comedic writer". Funny how one's self-perception can vary so much from what the world sees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 RIP Dan Spiegle, longtime comics artist. Evanier's obit http://www.newsfromme.com/2017/01/30/dan-spiegle-r-p/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeFnMachine Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 I loved "How Soon Is Never" and recommended it to all my fellow Smiths/Moz fans, so young, how sad. RIP Marc Spitz, music journalist, novelist, biographer. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/marc-spitz-veteran-music-journalist-and-author-dead-at-47-w465045 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 RIP to my dear friend, Edward Bryant, who passed away in his sleep yesterday after a long illness. A winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for short-fiction, Bryant was an early Clarion workshop grad and a prolific writer in the 1970s and 1980s and spent much of his time helping new writers get started. His fiction output dropped off in the 1990s, but he continued working as a reviewer and critic with a long-running column in Locus. A naturally witty and funny guy, he was a frequent toastmaster and/or host at conventions and award ceremonies. He will be very much missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 RIP Bernie Wrightson, age 68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Aw man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Damn. Really nice guy and one of the most incredibly talented illustrators of his generation. He was really born a couple of generations too late, Bernie needed to have been around in the 1930s doing the covers and interiors of Dime Mystery, Horror Stories and Weird Tales and pre-code stuff for E.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Bernie was one of my heroes. Glad he left such a large body of work for us to enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 http://jezebel.com/legendary-reporter-jimmy-breslin-dead-at-88-1793422810 Jimmy Breslin died at 88. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 This. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 21 hours ago, Pete said: This. The last great old-school reporter, I'm sure that he's catching up with Red Smith, Damon Runyon, Jack Anderson at that special bar near the pearly gates that's always open (just like your tab); and when you call the night editor about your deadline, he always says "Take as much time as you like!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zev Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Denis Johnson, author of "Tree of Smoke" and other works passed away at the age of 67. From what I have seen this hour, he was at home, and it was a peaceful ending. I found a copy of "Jesus' Son" once. Read the whole thing straight through in one day. At times brutal, brilliant through and through. Looks like I'll be rereading it this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Michael Bond, creator and author of the Paddington Bear series of children's books, has passed away. He was 91 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 RIP Len Wein, longtime writer/editor at DC and Marvel. Too many credits to list , but you can start with co-creating swamp thing and wolverine. Evanier's obit http://www.newsfromme.com/2017/09/10/len-wein-r-p/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Dammit. Way too young for Len. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Saw someone mention today how many times Wein revisited the Golem myth: swamp thing, galactic Golem,... they included Collossus, but not 100% sold on him fitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Great Len Wein story from evanier http://www.newsfromme.com/2017/09/11/len-wein-story/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Man. Seeing Len Wein writing the epilogue of the Kamandi Challenge in the DC solicits hit me hard for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Damn, but this month sucks... On the 23rd we lost Harvey Jacobs, perhaps best-known for his novel American Goliath or his first short story collection, The Egg of the Glak. Somehow at around age thirteen or fourteen I wound up with a copy of this collection and suddenly Ray Bradbury was no longer my favorite writer... Fast forward many years later and I was fortunate enough to publish Harvey's second collection and begin a friendship that became quite close over the years. To date, the collection My Rose and My Glove stands out among the nearly 100 books that I've edited and/or published as the volume that I remain the proudest of. The following day Kit Reed passed away. A remarkably gifted writer who published fiction for over sixty years. While there are a number of collections extant, someone really ought to publish her collected short fiction as despite there being ten collections of her short fiction, there's still a wealth of uncollected material, including her most recent story "Disturbance in the Produce Aisle" (Asimov's SF 9/2017). A good starting point would be the massive volume The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories; and it is... You get a nice hardcover for thirty-five bucks containing thirty-four stories, so just about a buck per story, that's what I call a bargain. While there's still a lot left to collect, as a retrospective volume this is an excellent starting point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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