The passing of Jack L. Chalker.
Mummy Az
Az
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I regret to inform everyone that within the past hour (Friday,
February 11, 2005, 11:30am) Science Fiction author Jack L. Chalker
lost his long fight with the various medical problems that had
developed over the last two months. Jack put up a noble fight for
survival, but the recovery we had all hoped for was never sustained.
The Family will be forming plans over the next day and memorial
services have not yet been scheduled. I have been told that the
Chalker family intends for the services to be conducted at the
Marzllo Funeral Chapel on Harford Road at Northern Parkway.
Jack L. Chalker has published 66 novels and has been translated
into over 20 languages. He was a founding member of the Baltimore
Science Fiction Society and the owner of Mirage Press a publisher of
SF reference works. Jack earned a graduate degree in history from the
Johns Hopkins University and has taught history at the high school
level.
Jack won the Dedalus Award in 1983, The Gold Medal of the West Coast
Review of Books in 1984, Skylark Award in 1985, and Hamilton-Brackett
Memorial Award in 1979, and has been a nominee for the John W.
Campbell Award twice and for the Hugo award four times.
Best known for his "Well of Souls" series which developed concepts of
cosmology and computer virtual reality long before scientists or
other SF authors had developed the concepts, Jack Chalker will live
on in the literary culture as surely as he lives on through his sons.
Rhino 7
wrote:
>From another list. He will be missed.
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>Az
Truly.
The good thing about authors is that their words live long after they
are gone. How many of the rest of us will be remembered as long, and
as positively?
Cheers, Jack! Thanks for the wonderful words.
The Bookwurm
--
Goddess of Libraries ™,
Pedant in Chief
Keeper of the BotRoM
Believer, Church of the Cosmic Muffin
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Barry Ruck
ma...@ozemail.com.au says...
> From another list. He will be missed.
>
> Az
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A moments silence is worth more than a thousand words.
Barry Ruck. Harlow, Essex. United Kingdom