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by Fox2! » Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:19 pm | |
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Instapundit is reporting that Jerry Pournelle has passed beyond.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/275067 |
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by runsforcelery » Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:24 pm | |
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I'll miss him. Wind to his wings. "Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead. |
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by Jonathan_S » Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:47 pm | |
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I'm very sorry to hear that. I never met him but I enjoyed both his novels and, back in the day, his Chaos Manner column for Byte (and later his blog) |
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by ldwechsler » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:46 pm | |
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I met Jerry many years ago...I believe it was in the 1970's. He was supposed to make an appearance at a bookstore at a mall and the publicist screwed up the dates.
I went into the store and saw him sitting by himself at a table. I had already read Mote in God's Eye and we had a long chat, followed by a nice lunch. He was charming and brilliant. I followed him on his blog for years and, of course, enjoyed his books. RIP, Jerry. You were one of the good ones. |
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by Lunan » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:10 pm | |
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a great loss to scifi
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by Fox2! » Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:03 am | |
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Is one of the Maya Sector worlds named "Jerry"? |
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by JohnRoth » Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:41 am | |
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The map I have lists 7: (L.) Sprague (deCamp) Isaac (Asimov) Poul (Anderson) Murray (Leinster) Randal (Garret) Edwin (Balmer?) - Probably (E)dwin (C)harles Tubb per Robert Woodward. Thanks! Robert (Heinlein) I'm not entirely sure, but I think they had all died by the time the map was made. There may be some others in the area whose names I don't recognize. Edit: add E.C. Tubb for Edwin. Also: I'm curious about Kay. Last edited by JohnRoth on Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:39 am, edited 1 time in total.
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by Fox2! » Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:24 pm | |
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Perhaps h will be added in the next update. |
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by saintonge » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:03 am | |
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The question of who the heck Edwin is has been bugging me for several years. |
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by Robert_A_Woodward » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:42 am | |
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I have found two more possibilities: Edwin Abbot, author of _Flatland_ Edwin Charles Tubb (aka E. C. Tubb), a very busy author with more pseudonyms than some people have books. ----------------------------
Beowulf was bad. (first sentence of Chapter VI of _Space Viking_ by H. Beam Piper) |
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