ping
I guess that makes three deaths in the comes in threes superstition.
I suppose it is not time to call Mccain home.
Thankfully Jerry Pournell is still going strong, and you can even trade messages with him at his website!
Saw a reference to Spielbergs AI. Spent 3 month on the set of AI. Interesting!!!
A wonderful author, and one among a few who brought to the world deep, rich, science fiction stories, before the days when Star Wars/Star Trek books hogged many shelves of a science fiction section in the larger bookstores.
RIP.
Never liked his stuff much - too new wavish for me. Never cared for his stories, but enjoyed a few of his novels. “Starship” is the only one that sticks in memory - a generational starship that has gone savage and tribal IIRC.
RIP though. The authors that I read growing up are now nearly all gone.