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 Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:37 pm
Though not as significant to role-playing as Gygax, Arthur C. Clark was a powerful sci-fi author of our times. If you are unfamiliar with his work, think 2001: A Space Odyssey. That would be him. It saddens me, though the man was 90. He will join the ranks of Douglas Addams and George Orwell. It's just me, but I respect authors quite a bit.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:17 am
It's not just you -- authors mean a lot to people. I cried when I found out that the author I had just finished writing a letter to had passed in 1985, because I could never tell him just how much a story of his meant to me. Words can have a profound effect on anyone. But as long as an author's work lives on, he'll never truly pass on -- he's made a mark on the world that won't go away easily smile
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:17 am
Death I can deal with, the fact that Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's?
Ack.
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:38 pm
Oh dear. I did not know that. /sadness
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