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The Beginning of the End
Jun. 9th, 2013 05:24 pmThis has been a decent weekend. Went out for drinks and a late dinner with a couple of friends Friday night, lunch and some errands with Mom yesterday, and a mix of napping, watching Marvel Anime, and reading a couple of Free RPG Day adventures today. Not chock-full of excitement, but I'm feeling pretty good about it.
Received word today that Iain Banks has died. He announced his terminal cancer to the world in April, in a message that was equally brave and humorous and sad. Banks was, by all indications, a heck of a good man, and I can vouch that he was a terrific writer. And he was proudly a science fiction writer - when once asked if he wrote SF just to pay the bills while working on non-genre books, he assured the questioner that it was in fact the other way around.
Received word today that Iain Banks has died. He announced his terminal cancer to the world in April, in a message that was equally brave and humorous and sad. Banks was, by all indications, a heck of a good man, and I can vouch that he was a terrific writer. And he was proudly a science fiction writer - when once asked if he wrote SF just to pay the bills while working on non-genre books, he assured the questioner that it was in fact the other way around.
