I took the liberty of posting a news item about this to the R-SPEC web site. http://r-spec.org/node/125
I included links to his web site, a site dedicated to obituaries/farewells/memories, and the Wiki entry about him. He was born 15 November 1930 and so was 78 and a half or so. RIP indeed. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > > J. G. Ballard died yesterday. > > He'd been living with cancer for a couple of years, and if I do the math I > see that he was almost 80, so it wasn't exactly premature. > > I've just been taking a quick look at the Google results, and most of the > American news obits lede by referencing him as "author of Empire of the > Sun." The English sources seem to generally lead with something like > "visionary" or "prophet" and often don't mention any specific works. > > > > -- > eric scoles ([email protected]) > > > > -- Dave Henn [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
