Edward D Hoch has died
Jan. 23rd, 2008 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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yendi):
This is sad, in that way that the passing of a great old stager is always sad, albeit inevitable.
As I said in a comment to Yendi, I met him once, and I have friends who knew him well. He was the image of a writer of his generation, or one of the images, at least: quiet and courteous and witty, as charmingly intelligent as his stories, which I'd devoured as a teenager. He did write novels, including SF, but the short story was his true medium and he exulted in it.
yendi):This is sad, in that way that the passing of a great old stager is always sad, albeit inevitable.
As I said in a comment to Yendi, I met him once, and I have friends who knew him well. He was the image of a writer of his generation, or one of the images, at least: quiet and courteous and witty, as charmingly intelligent as his stories, which I'd devoured as a teenager. He did write novels, including SF, but the short story was his true medium and he exulted in it.