Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke dies.
And so the last of the triumvirate of early sci-fi giants, along with Heinlein and Asimov, is gone. Phil Dick once said that every time someone used a robot that thought it was human he should get paid. For Clarke, it's every time a giant spaceship hovers over a city and people gather together to look up in awe and fear. Childhood's End is a legitimate classic. The stories stay with me more. "The Star" and "Nine Billion Names of God" are perfect, mind-blowing constructions. R.I.P.

Clarke is eulogized at Salon.

Labels: Books, obit, sci-fi

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Gary Gygax, RIP. Really tough to overstate how Dungeons & Dragons changed the way we (boys) played in the past three decades.

Labels: games, obit

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Monday, March 03, 2008

Jeff Healey dies at 41, apparently from the same cancer that took his sight.

Labels: music, obit

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Roy Scheider dies. With Jaws and The French Connection and, I have to add, Blue Thunder there were a good two or three years where this guy stood with Burt Reynolds and Marc Singer in the trifecta of movie masculinity for me. Not saying that was entirely a good thing, but there it is. Other people had John Wayne, I had Hooper and Beast Master.

Labels: movies, obit, sharks

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Bobby Fischer Died Yesterday [NYT obit]

Labels: obit

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