Hard-SF writer Hal Clement died this morning
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Joe Kesselman
I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
Writer GOH: Hal Clement
Artist GOH: George Richard
Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
Heck of a nice guy and a good teacher, as well as being an
SF Grandmaster. Wish I'd made more of an effort to get to
know him.
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Dave Weingart
>I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
> Artist GOH: George Richard
> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
Yes. I recall the flyers for the con, although I didn't go to it
myself.
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barbara trumpinski-roberts
> Folks - hard-SF writer Hal Clement died this morning.
>
thanks for the news, kate. that's a damn shame.
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> One day in Teletubbyland, kes...@alum.mit.edu said:
>>I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
>> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
>> Artist GOH: George Richard
>> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
>
> Yes. I recall the flyers for the con, although I didn't go to it
> myself.
I met him at Marcon several years ago. I'm glad I had the chance to
tell him how much pleasure his writing had given me over the years.
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>
> Can someone confirm this report? Websearch doesn't find it yet.
SFWA has the obituary at
http://www.sfwa.org/news/halclement.htm
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Sean Cleary
> One day in Teletubbyland, kes...@alum.mit.edu said:
> >I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
> > Writer GOH: Hal Clement
> > Artist GOH: George Richard
> > Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
>
> Yes. I recall the flyers for the con, although I didn't go to it
> myself.
I did not know that he painted, no less that he used that name.
I did know him as a fellow Nesfan.
Sean
Heather Jones
>
> Can someone confirm this report? Websearch doesn't find it yet.
>
> I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
> Artist GOH: George Richard
> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
>
> Heck of a nice guy and a good teacher, as well as being an
> SF Grandmaster. Wish I'd made more of an effort to get to
> know him.
There was a special SWFA Online Update about it. (This is
an e-mail supplement to the SWFA newsletters.)
Heather
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Bruce Adelsohn
> I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
> Artist GOH: George Richard
> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
I was there, though damned if can recall which one it was. I *do*
remember the GoH speech(es), combined into a discussion of which aspect
(pro author, artist, fan) was most important and most satisfying. It
began with him in his trademark NESFA blue blazer, and continued with
him removing it to show a relevantly messaged T-shirt. Which he removed
shortly to show another, and another, and another...
Ultimately, I remember, he concluded that being a fan was the best part
of the experience. After all, was his conclusion, if you don't enjoy
what you're doing, then how good can the writing or art be (both as
experience and as end-product).
> Heck of a nice guy and a good teacher, as well as being an
> SF Grandmaster. Wish I'd made more of an effort to get to
> know him.
Same here, that last. I was always too afraid I'd come off the ardent
fanboy, and I was too stinkin' proud to show that face to one of the
classiest acts around. (No con will ever be quite the same without his
quiet presence in the hall, suddenly smiling in appreciation of
someone's joke.)
He will be greatly missed.
- Bruce -
Chris Croughton
<kes...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Can someone confirm this report? Websearch doesn't find it yet.
>
> I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
> Artist GOH: George Richard
> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
I wonder how many were disappointed and how many pleased when they found
out? I'd have been among the latter...
> Heck of a nice guy and a good teacher, as well as being an
> SF Grandmaster. Wish I'd made more of an effort to get to
> know him.
I met him twice, briefly at Conspiracy (Worldcon 1989 in Brighton,
England) and for slightly longer at Rivercon (Louisville KY) in whatever
year Bucconeer was on ('98?). I've been a fan of his books since I was
a kid, he was among the "really hard SF" (i.e. real science) writers but
also managed to get people (and aliens) sounding realistic.
I'd have loved to have been in his classes...
Chris C
Margaret Middleton
> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
> Artist GOH: George Richard
> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
I think that may have been one of Wombat's gatherings in upper NY state. I'm
losing the name of the con, but I recall the ads too.
MSMinLR(at)aol.com (Margaret Middleton)
Local con: http://www.rockon.org
Interfilk Quilt: http://members.aol.com/msminlr/ifquilt.htm
Virtual garage sale: house stuff and ham radio gear
http://members.aol.com/mcubedventures/packrat.htm
John F Davis
says...
Just checked my local favorite convention (Confusion) and Hal was the
GOH in 1990. (They have a handy list on their web page)
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Martin DeMello
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:19:06 -0500, Joe Kesselman
> <kes...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Can someone confirm this report? Websearch doesn't find it yet.
>>
>> I'm told one small con, some years ago, featured:
>> Writer GOH: Hal Clement
>> Artist GOH: George Richard
>> Fan GOH: Harry Stubbs
>
> I wonder how many were disappointed and how many pleased when they found
> out? I'd have been among the latter...
I think the appropriate word would've been "geeked" - that little
frisson of pleasure you get from seeing a neat piece of conceptual
legerdemain.
martin
Chris Croughton
That's the way I felt at hearing about it now. I was thinking of the
ones who went expecting three separate guests...
Chris C
Harold Feld
> Folks - hard-SF writer Hal Clement died this morning.
Title: An SF Author Passes
Tune: An Astrolger's Song by Kippling/Fish
To the Heavens above us oh look and behold!
The Sun in her anguish sheds tears of pure gold.
All stars and all planets join Terra in grief.
For one of her brightest souls sadly must leave.
The cosmos bears witness when great ones expire!
The Northern Lights dance as a funeral pyre!
The Sun and the Earth weave celestial shrouds,
As Terra is covered in ionic clouds.
Hal Clement we called him, though Stubbs was his name.
His smile won him friends while his pen won him fame.
A teacher, a mentor, an artist, and more,
The Sun feels his passing and shakes to her core.
Science, he taught, is not lifeless and dry.
He wrote tales of wonder; he painted the sky.
He served country in war; he taught children in peace.
Small wonder the Heavens now mark his release
The Sun flares in agony sending forth storms,
The new moon is sickly, the atmosphere warms,
All stars and all planets join Terra in grief
For one of her brightest souls sadly must leave