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: 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….
RIP: David R. Bunch (1925-2000)
David R. Bunch, poet and short story author, died at 1:43AM on May 29 at the Village North Manor (a skilled nursing facility) in north St. Louis County, Missouri. His death followed a series of strokes. Mr. Bunch published nearly…
RIP: Howard Browne (1908-1999)
The December 2nd issue of Ansible reports that author and editor Howard Browne died on October 28th. Browne was managing editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures in the 1940s and their editor in the 1950s. Principally a mystery writer,…
RIP:Frank B Bryning (1907-1999)
The October 29th 1999 issue of The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet reports the death of Francis Bertram Bryning on October 12, 1999. Bryning, age 92, was an editor and publisher of technical publications and wrote many science fiction short stories,…
RIP: Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999)
The following was posted by Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine on Sunday, September 26, 1999: Marion Zimmer Bradley suffered a major heart attack on Tuesday, September 21 and died Saturday, September 25, 1999. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be…
RIP: Kirk Alyn (1910-1999)
RIP: Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (1923 – 1998)
Jerome Bixby, science fiction author, passed away this week in San Bernardino Ca. Bixby who authored numerous short stories, the novel DAY OF THE DOVE and episodes of the original Star Trek and Twilight Zone, died of heart failure at…