Those we lost in 2010

[Talia]

This seems to be a melancholy annual tradition.

Anyway, the aforementioned Kage Baker
http://forum.escapeartists.net/index.php?topic=3272.0

and I found out over the weekend, Robert B. Parker

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7038200/Robert-B-Parker.html

Dammit dammit dammit all to heck. He was my favorite popcorn reading novelist. I mean his stuff sure as hell was fluffy but boy was it fun.

First Ed McBain, then Tony Hillerman, now this.

:/

Authors should be immortal, sez me.

[lowky]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

[Heradel]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

If he was immortal we'd never get a chance to read what he's been writing for the last half-century.

[lowky]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

If he was immortal we'd never get a chance to read what he's been writing for the last half-century.

Well he had plenty of time, but he shunned contact with the outside world including his agents so....  Someone who never wanted to be famous, but became so anyways.

[Heradel]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

If he was immortal we'd never get a chance to read what he's been writing for the last half-century.

Well he had plenty of time, but he shunned contact with the outside world including his agents so....  Someone who never wanted to be famous, but became so anyways.

Well, from the Obits the story was more: He wanted to get famous, became famous, and then got sick of fame and went into seclusion.

[Bdoomed]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

ugh I hated The Catcher in the Rye.
I applaud him at his success and it sucks he died but deity I couldn't stand that book.

[lowky]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

ugh I hated The Catcher in the Rye.
I applaud him at his success and it sucks he died but deity I couldn't stand that book.

Out of everything I had to read in High School, Catcher in the Rye and R is for Rocket/S is for space are my favorites.  Actually the Raven should be there too, but it was such a crappy abridged version they presented us with I was offended (of course i had been reading and rereading the raven since elementary school so....

[Heradel]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

ugh I hated The Catcher in the Rye.
I applaud him at his success and it sucks he died but deity I couldn't stand that book.

Out of everything I had to read in High School, Catcher in the Rye and R is for Rocket/S is for space are my favorites.  Actually the Raven should be there too, but it was such a crappy abridged version they presented us with I was offended (of course i had been reading and rereading the raven since elementary school so....

Which caused this to flare up from the depths of memory, oh so many years ago and before I got my stars.

[Talia]

and another author who should have been immortal  J.D. Salinger

Ooh good call, not sure how that slipped my mind. (course, I have never read Catcher in the Rye..)

[stePH]

I remember liking Catcher when I read it in high school, but I also believe that if I could meet my fifteen-year-old self, I'd probably want to smack his punk ass down.

[jrderego]

I remember liking Catcher when I read it in high school, but I also believe that if I could meet my fifteen-year-old self, I'd probably want to smack his punk ass down.

Catcher resonated with me in high school like the book came with a reverb pedal attached. I reread it when I turned 35 as and absolutely hated every single page of it. It's funny, of all the books that I totally loved as a kid, Catcher, A Clockwork Orange, Starship Troopers, Moby Dick, The Secret Sharer, Metamorphosis, 1984, Pride and Prejudice, Where Angels Fear to Tread, the only one that didn't age well for me at was Catcher.

I didn't like Franny and Zoey when I originally read it as a kid, I wonder if I'd like that one now?

[Planish]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi - survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

Kate McGarrigle. I loved her earlier work, with sister Anna.

[Heradel]

William Tenn/Phil Klass - SF writer

[stePH]

William Tenn/Phil Klass - SF writer

I have a copy of The Seven Sexes with a stripped cover that I acquired from a dumpster behind Crown Books when I was only thirteen or so.  That I still have it is a testament to the contents.

[Talia]

Dick Francis http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Dick-Francis-thriller-writer-and-ex-jockey-dies-364571.php

Never read his stuff but he seems to have been popular. Perhaps I should.

[Scattercat]

I'm told Dick Francis tended to write the same book quite often with different names.  Still, he was purportedly also fun and fairly light entertainment.

[Planish]

Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010)
He was the best illustrator in the genre, and all others were unsuccessful imitators. [what me think]
http://frankfrazetta.org/

It's a pity they didn't get around to producing the John Carter of Mars movie while he was still on board as concept artist. That woulda' been awesome.

[stePH]

Ronnie James Dio, yesterday morning, to stomach cancer.

[lowky]

Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010)
He was the best illustrator in the genre, and all others were unsuccessful imitators. [what me think]
http://frankfrazetta.org/

It's a pity they didn't get around to producing the John Carter of Mars movie while he was still on board as concept artist. That woulda' been awesome.

Ronnie James Dio, yesterday morning, to stomach cancer.

These two make me sad

[Talia]

well, saw this coming, but its still super-sad.

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/05/rip-jeanne-robinson-1948---2010/

[gelee]

Aw man.  Poor Jean, and poor Spider.  It's always seemed to me that he simply adores and idolizes his wife.  It's one of the things I've always liked and admired about him.

[Zorag]

Mickey Garagiola  Longtime announcer for Wrestling at the Chase.

[Planish]

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, 17/10/2010

Wikipedia  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot

and...

Barbara Billingsley, (December 22, 1915  – October 16, 2010) best known as June Cleaver, the mom on sitcom Leave It To Beaver

[FamilyGuy]

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, 17/10/2010

Wikipedia  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot

I guess Jonathan Coulton is going to have change the lyrics to his song.

[FamilyGuy]

Barbara Billingsley, (December 22, 1915  – October 16, 2010) best known as June Cleaver, the mom on sitcom Leave It To Beaver

My all-time favorite was when she was translating jive in Airplane!