On Apr 1, 9:38 pm, David Langford <ansi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> R.I.P. _Jane Blackstock_ (1947-2001), late of Gollancz, died of cancer
An unpleasant typo.
End of complaints, but couldn't resist posting some links after
digging them up:
> Administrator Tom Hunter writes: 'In an SF Crowsnest interview I said:
http://www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk/features/arc/2008/nz12348.php
- quite
reasonable IMO.
> _Sir Arthur C. Clarke_ (1917-2008) [...] When _Ansible_'s
> most infamous department quoted him in 2002, he replied with delight:
Oh, http://news.ansible.co.uk/a178.html#thog
- and
http://news.ansible.co.uk/a182.html
notes "finally read the A178 Thog
department
when it resurfaced in Interzone 180".
> AS OTHERS MOURN US. Simon Drake (who he?) shares his feelings on the
> _Times_ website:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3587168.ece
(click on "see all" - oh, it's THAT article).
> OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Darren Nash_ of Orbit unwisely talked to _The Times_
> about Arthur C. Clarke: 'This was distilled into the comment piece you
> see in today's _Times_ [20 March]. It's not how I would have chosen to
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3587167.ece
> write it -- apart from the last two paragraphs, which are taken from my
> Orbit blog piece, they're not my words
....
> You only need to
> read my piece on the Orbit website to see the high regard in which I
held
> Sir Arthur.
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2008/03/19/sir-arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008/
(Speaking of ACC obituaries, I found PNH's
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010077.html
the best so far - though I have yet to see John Clute's. :-)
--
Jan Vanek jr.
same username at Gmail
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