oh my! Douglas Adams
died suddenly Friday of a heart attack. He was the first author I met
in person. I can’t believe he died before the age of 50. If you have
never read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,
you really should. It was in the first handful of SF books I read as a
kid. It hard to imagine what my teenage life would have been without
the Dark Domain, the Austin “can I get ‘yall som’um to draaank?” NASFiC
with Fred and Bryan, and SF books like hhgg. You really want to
celebrate his life, in which he created so many great books, but it
sucks too much that he died.