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There's a particular shock at discovering an author you loved has died; more so when it happened a while back and you didn't realize but feel you should've known. I was just adding some Tom Deitz books to my Goodreads reviews and found that he died in April 2009.
I found out Heinlein had died in a similar way. This was long before the Internet; I looked him up in an encyclopedia of SF and saw the end date to his life. I was on my lunch break and I went back to the office in tears as I recall.
David and I loved Deitz's books, the earlier ones especially. What a shame.
I found out Heinlein had died in a similar way. This was long before the Internet; I looked him up in an encyclopedia of SF and saw the end date to his life. I was on my lunch break and I went back to the office in tears as I recall.
David and I loved Deitz's books, the earlier ones especially. What a shame.