Joanna Russ (b.1937) died on April 29, 2011, two days after entering hospice. Russ was admitted to hospice following a series of strokes. Russ received a BA from Cornell in 1957 where she studied under Vladimir Nabokov. She began publishing science fiction in 1959 with the short story “Nor Custom Stale.” In 1960, she earned […]
British author Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011) died on March 26 after being diagnosed with lung cancer in mid-2009. Jones is perhaps best known for her novel Howl’s Moving Castle, which was turned into an animated film by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Jones began publishing in 1970 with the novel Changeover, aimed at the adult […]
Dutch author W.J. Maryson (1950-2011) died on March 9 after being taken to the hospital suffering from heart problems. Maryson, who was born Wim Stolk, was the author of the six-volume Master Magician series and the Unmagician trilogy among other books. In 2004, the third novel of the Unmagician trilogy, De heer de Diepten, received the Elf Fantasy […]
British author Brian Jacques (b.June 15, 1939) died on February 5, 2011 following emergency surgery for an aortic aneurysm. Jacques published his juvenile novel Redwall, about a collection of anthropomorphic mice, badgers, voles, and other creatures, in 1986.
Glenn Lewis Gillette (b.1946) died on Nov. 1 after a year-long battle with cancer.
Edwin Charles (E. C.) Tubb (b. 1919) died on September 10. Tubb was born in London and began publishing in 1951 with the short story “No Short Cuts” in New Worlds.
Frank K. Kelly
1914-2010
RIP James P. Hogan
1940 – 2010
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
1948-2010
Jerry Emerson Loomis
1933-2010
Fight or Die!
Witness the birth of the Horde and the fall of an Empire millennia in the making. A catalyst that lays the foundation for the arrival of the lost Ninth Legion of Rome and their comrades.
This is how legends are born.
Ronald D Ferguson taught college mathematics & published 4 textbooks, but decided writing SciFi & F is more fun. Now he writes full time. He lives with his wife and a rescue dog near the shadow of the Alamo.
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