Sad to hear about Fred Pohl. He was high on my list of people I had hoped to meet. Anyone with even a passing interest in sf should read The Way the Future Was.

Majorly bummed. A dear friend passed away and the funeral is on my birthday!

That IS tough, but you could try to treat the funeral service as a celebration of the friend's life.

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Originally posted by philnic:
That IS tough, but you could try to treat the funeral service as a celebration of the friend's life.

That's what they're calling it.

A day late - but NYC, et al, still remembered:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TM8...DFQ/s1600/towers.jpg

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Originally posted by fjp451:
A day late - but NYC, et al, still remembered:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TM8...DFQ/s1600/towers.jpg

Thanks, I was hoping someone would post on that.

Mr. Tom Clancy!
Ironically, I thought fondly of my readings of this author's works yesterday when I saw a well-worn copy of Hunt for Red October just returned to our small town library's front desk:

Farewell to another powerful literary figure ~ http://abcnews.go.com/Entertai...ed/story?id=20444256

Peace.

Died 1849: Edgar Allan Poe

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Died 1849: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar with Ray (and H.P. and Illustrated Man), courtesy of The Simpsons - click on attachment link below.

RB's "Papa!"

http://www.13wmaz.com/images/6...-allan-poe-stamp.jpg

RB's other Papa:

http://www.businessesgrow.com/...-Hemingway-Stamp.jpg

Diana Harryhausen passed Sunday. Just around five months after her husband, Ray.

Hey, fjpalumbo, didn't you used to be fjp451?

I'm Back!!! That was kinda like, "A Sound of Thunder!!"

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Oh, yeah!! Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) It is getting close to "War of the Worlds" time again.

Yez, and wee hav noo orl chanjed the wey we spel bicos off yor meddling with thee timelyne.