Category Archives: Tributes

David G Hartwell, 1941-2016

2016-01-21 monsffa

David Hartwell has passed away. He was always a good friend to Con*Cept and many here will remember him being the editor GoH at Anticipation. Who could forget the rack of outlandish ties? I’m sure I have pictures of it somewhere, but cannot find it.

HI wife, Kathryn Cramer, posted a very touching tribute on her blog.

I just awoke from this horrible dream that David Hartwell, my husband, had fallen down the stairs and died. And now that I am fully awake, it is still true, and I am still a widow. Read more

Wonderful tributes pouring in at Making Light, comments. including a poem from Jo Walton, which I partly quote below:

What’s left is all you did and made, and we
So shaken at the gap where you belong
Counting your loss against eternity.

MonSFFA Website, Tributes

Tom Moore (1928-2015) & Theodore Bikel (1924-2015

2015-07-29 monsffa

Tom Moore was the artist for the Archie comics. He drew Archie & his friends off and on from 1953 to the late 1980s. Annual sales of the comic regularly surpassed half a million during the 60s. Read more:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/archie-cartoonist-tom-moore-dead-at-86-1.3163014

Theodore Bikel, acted in everything and anything, from the original Broadway musical, Sound of Music, to the role of Worf’s adopted father, Sergey Rozhenko in ST:TNG. He was also a social activist, participating in voter registration drives during the civil rights movement, and a demo outside the Soviet embassy to protest the Soviet treatment of Jewish citizens. And somehow he still found time to be a folksinger, co-foundeding the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Oscar Brand, and George Wein.

Tributes

Tolkien, a must-watch video

2015-07-02 monsffa

Posted on File 770, July 1, 2015

http://file770.com/?p=23499

A Documentary About “Tolkien’s Great War”

Today marks the start of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The Wade Center at Wheaton College took the occasion to post a link to a half-hour documentary released last year about J.R.R. Tolkien’s experiences in World War I.

The video was created by Elliander Pictures for a centenary exhibition at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where Tolkien attended. The film makers are also former pupils of the school.

For the centenary the school assembled a vast museum-quality display of WWI artifacts and they have kept online a fully informative website and an extensive photo gallery of the exhibit.

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Patrick Macnee (1922-2015)

2015-06-26 monsffa

Patrick Macnee passed away at the age of 93. He is better known as John Steed than as the voice of the Cylon Leader in 13 episodes of Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979), but it can be argued that The Avengers bordered on SF/F, and sometimes slipped right over into it. I remember some rather fantastic scenes!

http://file770.com/?p=23362

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33279566

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Joël Champetier

2015-06-02 monsffa

From Jean-Louis Trudel:

“After a long fight with acute leukemia, diagnosed after the Boréal 31 convention in May 2014, Joël Champetier passed away around 2 AM yesterday Saturday in a palliative care unit in St. Tite, a few kilometres away from his home in St. Séverin. A long-time member of SF Canada, Joël Champetier was the author of several novels, young adult books, and short stories. His novels included La Taupe et le Dragon, published by Tor in English translation in 1999 as The Dragon’s Eye, and La Peau blanche, which inspired the movie La Peau blanche, a.k.a.White Skin and Cannibal, winner of a Toronto International Film Festival award in 2004. A guest of honour at the World Fantasy Convention in 2001, he had won multiple awards, both as a writer with a literary career stretching back to the early 1980s and as the editor for many years of Solaris, one of the world’s oldest active SF magazines (founded in 1974). To many in Québec, he was an inspiration as a writer, as an editor, and as a friend.”