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lauraanne_gilman) wrote2007-05-17 10:03 am
lauraanne_gilman) wrote2007-05-17 10:03 am
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Lloyd Alexander
There will never be another new Lloyd Alexander book.
*has sorrow and loss*
*goes to hug bookshelf*
This was the writer I discovered before all others, when I was still chained to the 'children's room' in the library but looking for something with more. He brought me to fantasy as a genre, and twirled me around until I was dizzy with delight and possibility. My signed copy (after wearing out several others) of TARAN WANDERER is still one of my most beloved book-posessions.
I had the great good fortune, as I did with Hal Clement, to tell him how much his books meant to me. I hope he heard that a lot. I suspect he did.
We are all poorer for his loss, and richer for having his backlist with us still.
*has sorrow and loss*
*goes to hug bookshelf*
This was the writer I discovered before all others, when I was still chained to the 'children's room' in the library but looking for something with more. He brought me to fantasy as a genre, and twirled me around until I was dizzy with delight and possibility. My signed copy (after wearing out several others) of TARAN WANDERER is still one of my most beloved book-posessions.
I had the great good fortune, as I did with Hal Clement, to tell him how much his books meant to me. I hope he heard that a lot. I suspect he did.
We are all poorer for his loss, and richer for having his backlist with us still.