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Shea
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 02:00 PM
...died yesterday at 66.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/sci-fi-giant-mi.html
JustSomeDude
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 02:01 PM
Saw that... sad to see such a great writer go. :(
McVaaahhh
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 02:03 PM
Damn, he was a great writer.

RIP :(
konichd
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 02:25 PM
My favorite book of his was "Terminal Man" to this day I can't believe it hasn't been made into a movie! :dunno:
Mother Goose
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 02:31 PM
That sucks. :(
Jason ON
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 03:04 PM
Saw that earlier today. Too bad. I read a few of his books ...
Sortarican
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 03:27 PM
Didn't he just help develope some sort of 1st person shooter video game?
(Maybe just lent his name to it.)
LambeauXLIV
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 03:42 PM
That's too bad
Jim_Vess
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 05:04 PM
My favorite book of his was "Terminal Man" to this day I can't believe it hasn't been made into a movie! :dunno:

Um .. it was made into a movie. Back in the early 70's.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0072267/
TurboGizzmo
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 05:09 PM
My favorite author back in highschool.....when i had time to read books....now days its just manuals :crazy:


SIDE THOUGHT: there was some really weird book I read in highschool called Firefly or something it was Scifi couldnt find it online....
Jim_Vess
Wed Nov 5th, 2008, 09:35 PM
My favorite author back in highschool.....when i had time to read books....now days its just manuals :crazy:


SIDE THOUGHT: there was some really weird book I read in highschool called Firefly or something it was Scifi couldnt find it online....

Are you thinking of Firefly by Piers Anthony?

http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-Piers-Anthony/dp/0380759500/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225946026&sr=1-8
TurboGizzmo
Thu Nov 6th, 2008, 03:53 PM
Are you thinking of Firefly by Piers Anthony?

http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-Piers-Anthony/dp/0380759500/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225946026&sr=1-8

YUP downloaded it and confirmed ...this was the book cover they had in highschool which is the normally one I was finding when i was looking around online. http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-Piers-Anthony/dp/0688097057
CYCLE_MONKEY
Thu Nov 6th, 2008, 04:59 PM
Bummer! Great author, I liked his stuff, including Terminal Man.

"Crichton's personal views on the politics of science were controversial: He believed that there was a phenomenon he called "consensus science" that invented or exaggerated the existence or effects of such things as global warming and second-hand smoke.
No less a believer than Al Gore dismissed Crichton, and presumably his 2004 novel State of Fear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear), by telling a U.S. House committee: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor.... If your doctor tells you you need to intervene here, you don't say 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it's not a problem.'"
Gore is such a dipsh!t, God I'm glad that moron didn't make it. State of Fear is a GREAT book, with a lot of REAL facts in it. Gore has made a multi-million-dollar business with his chicken-little fear-mongering. Hopefully, this new guy that was elected the other night will have enough sense to take that whole fantasy and see through it.