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George Clayton Johnson: Not Dead Yet
News From ME ^ | December 24, 2015 | Mark Evanier

Posted on 12/25/2015 11:00:31 AM PST by EveningStar

...and now I am delighted to hear that he is still "outliving" his own death. George is reportedly still hanging in there and his son says he may just live through another Christmas. An announcement Tuesday night that his death could happen any minute somehow triggered widespread reports on the 'net and in the press that he had passed. I waited until Locus (the science-fiction news site) and other official-type sources had posted it before I decided it was so. Locus seems to have taken their announcement offline and so has Variety...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: georgeclaytonjohnson; notdeadyet

1 posted on 12/25/2015 11:00:31 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: Borges; knittnmom; Dr. Sivana; ShadowAce; headstamp 2; Red Badger; discostu; fieldmarshaldj

ping


2 posted on 12/25/2015 11:02:49 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

George Clayton Johnson wrote a short story that became the basis for the original Ocean’s Eleven. Anyone know the name of that short story and any of its publishing info? I would love to read it.


3 posted on 12/25/2015 11:10:50 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

Interestingly enough, it is titled “Ocean’s Eleven”.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624907.Ocean_s_Eleven


4 posted on 12/25/2015 12:13:00 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecclest 10:2)
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To: EveningStar

Gotta hate when that happens. It’s a Festivus Miracle.


5 posted on 12/25/2015 12:55:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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