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Sep. 25th, 2006 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyNews has come out that John M. Ford has passed away.
We never made each other's acquaintance. He was a regular on the Pyramid boards when I was, most of a decade ago, while I still had MiB points to waste, and was one of those guys whose posts you'd search out to read, even if you weren't paying attention to the thread in general because they were worth reading, even if just for his signatures. He was in ill health even then, requiring a kidney transplant at one point; a English friend of his sent him a steak & kidney pie to speed in his recovery.
I have three books written by him at home, including his two Star Trek ones and The Dragon Waiting, a historical novel; I bought them because they were his, and they've hovered at various spots of the 'to read' list. It sucks that this is the sort of thing that has to prod me into remembering that. I also have his Klingon supplement he did for Fasa Trek as well as Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues, which is considered one of the high points of the early Paranoia line.
This is a poem he composed on 9/11.
We never made each other's acquaintance. He was a regular on the Pyramid boards when I was, most of a decade ago, while I still had MiB points to waste, and was one of those guys whose posts you'd search out to read, even if you weren't paying attention to the thread in general because they were worth reading, even if just for his signatures. He was in ill health even then, requiring a kidney transplant at one point; a English friend of his sent him a steak & kidney pie to speed in his recovery.
I have three books written by him at home, including his two Star Trek ones and The Dragon Waiting, a historical novel; I bought them because they were his, and they've hovered at various spots of the 'to read' list. It sucks that this is the sort of thing that has to prod me into remembering that. I also have his Klingon supplement he did for Fasa Trek as well as Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues, which is considered one of the high points of the early Paranoia line.
This is a poem he composed on 9/11.
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Date: 2006-09-25 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 02:26 pm (UTC)I think I'll break out my well-worn and much-beloved copy and give it another read through today.
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Date: 2006-09-25 04:54 pm (UTC)He penned some of the greatest lines evar, such as, "I don't want to borrow any more money from my brother, because that might start a rumor that he's funding a private army; and that's a dangerous rumor to start, because it's true."
I met him at a con something like 10 years ago, and I tried to express my appreciation. He was very cool about it. He did a lot to push the envelope in ways lots of folks probably won't remember.
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