Kurt Vonnegut RIP
Via the Interaction Forum comes sad news – Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84.
Edit: predictably enough, the blogosphere (sf-nal and otherwise) is heaving with tributes. I liked David Louis Edelman’s look at Vonnegut’s work and the effect it had on him as a young reader, and Chris Roberson posted up some sound writing advice from Vonnegut. Yet another author who I’ve failed to fully appreciate before he passed away, it seems. Selah.
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April 12th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I was so sad to find out!
There are more authors in my top ten list that have died than are alive now.
I thought you might like this article (if you haven’t read it already) from Wired about how writers and moviemakers avoid the term “Science Fiction”
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news/2007/04/scifighetto_0412
April 13th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Same here, Paul. I’ve only read excerpts of his work, but he’s on my to-read list now.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Only read one book and it is slightly sad that it takes a man’s death for me to read more but that’s not such a bad thing really.