In the 90’s, I used to correspond with Ken Grimwood, who was a posting buddy from CompuServe. He sent me one of his books, I’m sure it was “Replay”, but I had no idea of what a great writer he was at the time. I went to look him up a while back to say “Hi”, and was very saddened to learn he had passed away. He was a really decent and funny man, and exceptionally talented.
In other RIP news, Dan O'Bannon, the writer of the original script for ALIEN died yesterday, at the age of 63.