Vale, Dave Marsh, who has died at 74. One of the founding writers of Creem, my teenage bible, he’s probably best known for getting people to realise the power of Bruce Springsteen but he was also fierce advocate for Patti Smith, which was no small thing in the cock-rock 70s before punk arrived. I took…
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Elena Steier
It’s so hard to lose people and then to try to say something about that loss. Elena was my friend, sometimes my collaborator, always bringing the unexpected and what would she say? ‘Oh well. What can you do?’ and then she would do it: write a story, sketch out a comic, go to spin class….
John R. Douglas
Friday Ginjer Buchanan posted on FB that her partner of over 50 years had died. You don’t really think of ‘power couples’ in the SF world, but they have both been so omnipresent in not only genre publishing but as enthusiastic boosters of the same. I first met them probably (my memory is a sieve…
John Laity 1935-2023
John Laity 9 Oct 1935-6 Mar 2023 John Wesley Laity died Monday March 6th 2023 from the myriad complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Lansing, he was the son of Edith Sippola Laity and Wesley Wilbur Laity, who predeceased him as did his older sister Helen Laity Hearp. He grew up on Clark Road and…
SA4QE 2015
Happy birthday to Russell Hoban, wherever he may be in the luminiferous ether. So we remember him every year: and odd writer with unusually attached fans. Such loyalty is not easily won. I recommend his books to you. You’ll find a few to treasure. If you want to understand what the Slickman A4 Quote Event…