SFWA’s In Memoriam marks the loss of writers and other science fiction and fantasy creators by celebrating their literary legacies and their contributions to the publishing community. The person whose loss we are marking does not have to be a SFWA member. It is enough that they contributed to the world of SFF and leave behind people who wish to honor their life and work. Please contact publications@sfwa.org if you wish for us to add an entry for a recently lost creator to the list.
RIP: Marguerite McClure Bradbury (1922-2003)
Marguerite ("Maggie") McClure Bradbury, wife of one of America’s best known writers, Ray Bradbury, passed away on November 24. A graduate of UCLA, Marguerite met Ray in 1946 while working as a clerk in a LA bookshop. They were married…
RIP: Kir Bulychov (1934-2003)
Locus Online and the Moscow Times report that Igor Mozheiko, Russian writer of science fiction and screenplays under the pseudonym Kir Bulychov, died Friday, September 4. Born in Moscow, October 18, 1934, he graduated from the Moscow Teachers Training Institute…
RIP: Ilan Ramon (1954-2003)
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RIP: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, MD (1962-2003)
RIP: Kalpana Chawla, PH.D. (1962-2003)
RIP: David M. Brown (1956-2003)
RIP: Michael P. Anderson (1959-2003)
RIP: William C. McCool (1961-2003)
RIP: Rick D. Husband (1957-2003)
RIP: Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002)
Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Ph. D., musician, author, and internationally known oral historian died September 12, 2002, after a twenty-year battle with leukemia and cancer. He was born April 17, 1923 in Waterloo, Iowa. During WWII he served as Communications…
RIP: Poul Anderson (1926-2001)
RIP: Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
RIP: Sheila Bostick (2001)
************************************************************ Sheila Bostick died peacefully in her sleep early March 11, 2001. She was a well-known West Coast fan, traveler, mainstay of the early bulletin boards and newsgroups, photographer, mother of Alan and Diana, and incorrigible punster. She served as…
RIP: Carl Barks (1901-2000)
Cartoonist Carl Barks died on Friday, August 25 at age 99 at his home in Grants Pass, Oregon. Barks was a comic book creator for the Walt Disney Co. and invented Scrooge McDuck, the Beagle Boys, Gyro Gearloose and others….