Topic: The new obituary thread (Read 69870 times)

Thad · « **Reply #780 on:** May 29, 2013, 03:10:34 PM »

Jack Vance. I don't know his work but I know his name.

Mongrel · « **Reply #781 on:** May 29, 2013, 03:38:35 PM »

Damn, I keep meaning to read the Songs of a Dying Earth series. as well as Jack Wolf's work in the same universe.

Büge · « **Reply #782 on:** May 29, 2013, 04:09:43 PM »

Once again, I'm embarrassed that my first reaction was "he was still alive?"

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #783 on:** May 29, 2013, 06:25:15 PM »

I just found out about this and had the same reaction.

Our taste in books doesn't usually overlap, but Dad gave me his copy of The Best of Jack Vance early in my teen years, and while I never sought out any of Vance's other work for some reason, I really loved that book.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #784 on:** May 31, 2013, 11:13:33 PM »

Andrew Scott Reisse, cofounder of the Oculus VR.

Büge · « **Reply #785 on:** June 01, 2013, 11:20:56 AM »

Jean Stapleton

All in the Family Theme Song

Joxam · « **Reply #786 on:** June 03, 2013, 01:15:57 AM »

Frank Lautenberg. He lived a full life but dying from pneumonia is a terrible way to go. Its basically drowning to death :(

Rico · « **Reply #787 on:** June 09, 2013, 07:10:16 AM »

Iain Banks ;_;

(Only you could name a spaceship Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath)

Mongrel · « **Reply #788 on:** June 09, 2013, 08:29:38 AM »

:(

I saw the announcement a few weeks ago that he had little time left. I've read too few of his books, but have enough to know how much he'll be missed.

Mongrel · « **Reply #789 on:** June 18, 2013, 03:56:21 PM »

Michael Hastings

Fuck.

Joxam · « **Reply #790 on:** June 19, 2013, 11:16:36 AM »

James Gandolfini, apparently. Only source I've seen so far is TMZ but the local news just reported it. :(

Büge · « **Reply #791 on:** June 19, 2013, 12:00:07 PM »

Slim Whitman.

Thad · « **Reply #792 on:** June 19, 2013, 12:25:15 PM »

Kim Thompson, co-founder of Fantagraphics.

The guy was a titan. If you've read a European comic translated into English in the past 30 years, you've got Thompson to thank either directly or indirectly. There's also the matter of a little comic called Love and Rockets that his company published and continues to publish.

Thad · « **Reply #793 on:** June 24, 2013, 03:25:35 PM »

Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, among many many others.

Caithness · « **Reply #794 on:** June 24, 2013, 05:44:57 PM »

For a moment I thought "among many many others" wasn't referring to books.

Thad · « **Reply #795 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:39:42 PM »

Well, if you stick to his TV resume I think it still applies.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #796 on:** June 25, 2013, 01:38:11 PM »

I think Caithness was reading it as "Richard Matheson, among many others."

Thad · « **Reply #797 on:** June 25, 2013, 03:28:29 PM »

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #798 on:** June 25, 2013, 04:51:47 PM »

On a larger scale, it is true.

Thad · « **Reply #799 on:** June 26, 2013, 04:00:34 PM »

Alan Myers, former Devo drummer.

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