Yes, I've heard. . . .
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shalannaI just don't know what to SAY.
The writer Robert Lynn Asprin crossed the bar yesterday afternoon. My prayers and thoughts are with his family and friends, and also with the poor convention worker who found him slumped on the sofa (according to the report on sff.net). She's gotta be taking it hard, as well.
I "met" him (from afar--meaning I heard him speak on panels and make a few remarks in passing) at a couple of cons, starting with a Dallas Fantasy Faire at which there were fiction workshops run by Jody Lynn Nye's husband (Bill something--Fawcett?) and various other luminaries. Robert Asprin held forth about how he was stuck writing the Skeeve and Aahz Myth Adventures books when he felt he had mined the situation and said all there was to say, and that he'd moved on creatively, but no editor would take a chance on his new book that was about war; he also talked a lot about songwriting and filking. I thought he was a great character and began plotting to put him into one of MY books. [Why I remember this con clearly: There was one line in my "Splatterfairies" story that the judge had marked as good, telling Bill that he'd fallen off the chair laughing; that judge was author William Forstchen, and I've always been grateful to him (and held a good thought for him) for that encouragement. That was a story they said "was almost there," and now it has been there (it was in an anthology and now is up at Anthology Builder.) The Fantasy Faire was one of the shabbier cons, but this was back in the 1990s or thereabouts, and I enjoyed it.] Asprin was one of the entertainers at the con, and also at this year's ConDFW. I know the F/SF community will be less for missing one of its lights.
Even though I didn't really know him, I'm sad for those who are left behind.
"[A]ny man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."--John Donne, Meditation XVII
The writer Robert Lynn Asprin crossed the bar yesterday afternoon. My prayers and thoughts are with his family and friends, and also with the poor convention worker who found him slumped on the sofa (according to the report on sff.net). She's gotta be taking it hard, as well.
I "met" him (from afar--meaning I heard him speak on panels and make a few remarks in passing) at a couple of cons, starting with a Dallas Fantasy Faire at which there were fiction workshops run by Jody Lynn Nye's husband (Bill something--Fawcett?) and various other luminaries. Robert Asprin held forth about how he was stuck writing the Skeeve and Aahz Myth Adventures books when he felt he had mined the situation and said all there was to say, and that he'd moved on creatively, but no editor would take a chance on his new book that was about war; he also talked a lot about songwriting and filking. I thought he was a great character and began plotting to put him into one of MY books. [Why I remember this con clearly: There was one line in my "Splatterfairies" story that the judge had marked as good, telling Bill that he'd fallen off the chair laughing; that judge was author William Forstchen, and I've always been grateful to him (and held a good thought for him) for that encouragement. That was a story they said "was almost there," and now it has been there (it was in an anthology and now is up at Anthology Builder.) The Fantasy Faire was one of the shabbier cons, but this was back in the 1990s or thereabouts, and I enjoyed it.] Asprin was one of the entertainers at the con, and also at this year's ConDFW. I know the F/SF community will be less for missing one of its lights.
Even though I didn't really know him, I'm sad for those who are left behind.
"[A]ny man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."--John Donne, Meditation XVII
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Date: 2008-05-25 02:35 am (UTC)