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Brent "Amy Harlib" <ahar...@earthlink.net> wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. >
