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Post by chadwilliam on May 15, 2022 15:46:12 GMT -5
Not sure how well known he is outside of Canada, but David Milgaard just died at the age of 69.
Milgaard was wrongfully imprisoned for rape at the age of 17 and wasn't released until 1992. While in prison, he himself was raped and even shot by a guard. He later became an advocate for others who had been wrongfully locked away and suffered as he had.
Really tragic news.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 16, 2022 14:33:44 GMT -5
This was on page 2 of the Sunday newspaper here in Portland:
Oregon fantasy author Patricia McKillip dies at 74
Award-winning author Patricia McKillip died May 6 at the age of 74, following a nearly half-century career in which she established herself as a leading voice in fantasy.
No cause was available for her death, which was first reported by Locus magazine. McKillip lived in North Bend.
“There really wasn’t anyone better at doing what she did,” Jacob Weisman, her editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications, said Thursday. “Her language is just exquisite. There’s no one else who writes like Pat.”
In a farewell post this week, Tachyon Publications paid tribute to McKillip’s “lush imagery and compelling characters.”
Born in Salem and educated at San Jose State University, McKillip first became a published author in 1973. When the World Fantasy Awards were established, she was part of the initial cohort of honorees in 1975, winning in the novel category for “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld,” a historical romance. She later won another World Fantasy Award for her novel “Ombria in Shadow” and ultimately won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Weisman said that when McKillip received her first World Fantasy Award, she neither knew that “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld” had been submitted, nor that the award even existed.
“The award then was a rather hideous bust of the writer H.P. Lovecraft created by the artist Gahan Wilson, a very talented artist best known for his cartoons in Playboy,” Weisman said. “So Pat opened the crate and discovered that the award had been damaged in transit. Its neck was split and she wondered if this were a sign from the Fantasy Mafia, that perhaps they thought that she should stop writing. Of course it wasn’t and she didn’t.”
Her work was also nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards, given for the best works of science fiction and fantasy.
A 2020 Washington Post article recommended her Riddle-Master books, a 1970s trilogy about a prince caught in a game that threatens the land he loves; the final volume, “Harpist in the Wind,” won a Locus Award. “Why these are not universally known, and why McKillip is not a household name, is a mystery to me,” author Lavie Tidhar wrote for The Post.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction’s entry on McKillip included this statement: “Over the final decades of her life, eschewing the use of fantasy backgrounds for inherently mundane epics, McKillip became perhaps the most impressive author of fantasy story still active.”
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Post by badwolf on May 16, 2022 17:35:49 GMT -5
This was on page 2 of the Sunday newspaper here in Portland: Oregon fantasy author Patricia McKillip dies at 74 I discovered her way back in junior high with The Riddle of Stars trilogy and have continued reading her throughout my life. She really was one of the best. I still have a couple unread on the shelf. |
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Post by badwolf on May 19, 2022 14:05:25 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on May 19, 2022 21:46:05 GMT -5
His stuff really captured the emotions of the films he scored, whether it was a group of British athletes in the 1924 Olympics or the dystopian future, where a bounty hunter is searching for genetically engineered slaves....
To me, Vangelis and Shoji Yamashiro will forever be the architects of the sounds of cyberpunk.
I never heard this one; but, a commentator at Youtube said they were about to undergo surgery for cancer, in 1998 and asked the hospital radio station to play this and it helped allay their fears and feel like they would survive the procedure. The post was from 3 months ago and they are healthy.
Jon Anderson & Vangelis....
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Post by berkley on May 19, 2022 22:11:36 GMT -5
Not sure how well known he is outside of Canada, but David Milgaard just died at the age of 69. Milgaard was wrongfully imprisoned for rape at the age of 17 and wasn't released until 1992. While in prison, he himself was raped and even shot by a guard. He later became an advocate for others who had been wrongfully locked away and suffered as he had. Really tragic news. Yes, big story for anyone growing up in Canada. One of our most famous or infamous wrongful conviction cases. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 20, 2022 1:00:46 GMT -5
His stuff really captured the emotions of the films he scored, whether it was a group of British athletes in the 1924 Olympics or the dystopian future, where a bounty hunter is searching for genetically engineered slaves... To me, Blade Runner is the first movie where the music rose to the same level as the visuals, and those were stunning. Chariots of Fire had a great theme, but the score offered little more than variations of it. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 26, 2022 11:48:04 GMT -5
R. I. P. Ray Liotta unquestionably best known for playing Henry Hill in Goodfellas. 67 is becoming increasingly young to me. Also great as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 26, 2022 13:23:40 GMT -5
Man, that sucks. And yeah, 67 is not what I consider old any more.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 26, 2022 13:35:13 GMT -5
R. I. P. Ray Liotta unquestionably best known for playing Henry Hill in Goodfellas. 67 is becoming increasingly young to me. Also great as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. Ray was also in GTA: Vice City, he really made the part of the main character Tommy Vercetti his own
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2022 15:26:13 GMT -5
RIP Andy Fletcher from Depeche Mode
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Post by foxley on May 26, 2022 17:33:59 GMT -5
R. I. P. Ray Liotta unquestionably best known for playing Henry Hill in Goodfellas. 67 is becoming increasingly young to me. Also great as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. And as Gary "Figgsy" Figgis in Cop Land: a personal favourite of mine.  |
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Post by Calidore on May 26, 2022 18:42:33 GMT -5
RIP Andy Fletcher from Depeche Mode
And now Andy White, drummer for Yes for the past 50 years as well as John Lennon. What a day. |
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Post by Confessor on May 26, 2022 19:55:56 GMT -5
RIP Andy Fletcher from Depeche Mode Yeah, just heard about this. Quite a shock. A real shame. Depeche Mode are such a great band. |
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Post by commond on May 26, 2022 21:14:17 GMT -5
Well, that sucks. Definitely spinning some Depeche Mode when I get home, and probably some Yes too.
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I discovered her way back in junior high with The Riddle of Stars trilogy and have continued reading her throughout my life. She really was one of the best. I still have a couple unread on the shelf.
