Comments on: RIP: Gene Van Troyer 1950-2009 http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Swapnil http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-365 Swapnil Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:30:45 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-365 I came to know about Gene through a Forum and he always kept the discussions on the track through his deep insights.

He was a man with great wisdom. We enjoy his presence on this planet, which enriched lives.

]]> By: File 770 » Blog Archive » Gene Van Troyer Dies http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-360 File 770 » Blog Archive » Gene Van Troyer Dies Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:47:34 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-360 [...] and sf author Gene Van Troyer, 58, died July 17 of cancer. He is survived by his wife Tomoko, daughter Miika, and sons Makato and [...]

]]> By: Mike Allen http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-339 Mike Allen Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:25:08 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-339 Some of Gene’s poems:

@ Mythic Delirium

@ Poetic Diversity

@ Strange Horizons

]]> By: Dr. R.P. Raman http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-335 Dr. R.P. Raman Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:58:30 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-335 Gene Van Troyer’s sudden demise leaves a great vacuum difficult to fill in the SF-world. We at Indian Science Fiction Writer’s Group enjoyed his wonderful and inspiring company very regularly at our site with highly scholarly and thought provoking ideas and inputs. He proved to be a modern day icon of sf writings in the world literature.

It’s really sad, he is no more with us. May his noble soul rest in peace at the lotus feet of the Almighty.

Aamen !

(Dr. R.P. Raman)
Mumbai, India
e-mail: rpraman1@gmail.com

]]> By: Dr.Arvind Mishra http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-333 Dr.Arvind Mishra Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:02:24 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-333 Oh its very shocking -Gene has been very regular on this forum and was a friend, philosopher and friend kind of persona for us -he expressed his views on various aspects of Sf on the forum from time to time and often showed the light and right path to choose whenever there happened to be some impasse in discussions in between us on the forum !
I PERSONALLY feel very much deprived and bereaved on the demise of this visionary sf writer and critic.

He was full of optimism but oh the cruel death does not spare any one this mortal land -perhaps he has gone to inhabit one of those planets of his sf stories which as a rule abounds with immortal lives .

When I talked him last I did not realize that his health was deteriorated to the extent that the end was too near …he accepted that writing in sitting posture was getting increasingly difficult for him but I felt that this man of great optimism and determination would come out of all this and shall have the last laugh ! ALAS ! as ill luck would have it it could not happen so ….

May all mighty give his family enough strength to withstand the great loss .

]]> By: Bob Frazier http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-332 Bob Frazier Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:52:24 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-332 I knew Gene poet to poet. Gene added a strong speculative / mainstream sensibility to the early years of the Science Fiction Poetry Association that has survived to this day. Gene visited my family once on Nantucket, and I visited Gene and Tomoko once in Portland, on a road adventure with poet Andy Joron. He was great friends with multiple-Rhysling-nominee Kathy Rantala, who I also met in Washington State on that trip, and the four of us collaborated on a massive round-robin poem by snail mail. He was the connective tissue. Gene and Tomoko with Makoto, Akito and their daughter Miika had made far off Okinawa their home, but connecting with poets in a heartfelt way was a specialty of his…he had just recently (late 2007?) published the poetry anthology “Collaborations.” That may well stand as a firm legacy.

]]> By: Jonathan Vos Post http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/#comment-329 Jonathan Vos Post Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:18:49 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=2361#comment-329 Oh no! He was, in many ways, my first long-term friend in the Science Fiction Poetry community. I adored his own verse, his criticism, his translations, or jolly times together. I feel a cold wind running through an emptiness in my spine, and in the spines of all my books. I know that he made Ray Bradbury very happy by printing (for the first time) the complete corrected version of a long poem done by myself with Ray Bradbury, in the anthology “Collaborations” — and now I have no way to repay the favor, other than by telling people what a kind, brilliant, magnificent man we have lost, and to wish the best to his wife and 3 children. We shared his light; we must live beyond the darkness.

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