John M. Ford (1957 - 2006)

[ffutures]

I expect that most of my flist who are interested know this already. For anyone who has missed it, John M. Ford has been found dead, exact cause not yet known, and SF and the gaming community will feel the loss. See the link below for more.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That poem (or is it a pome?) is wonderful.

Something tells me I really should have read some of his books but for some reason, they always passed me by...

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I didn't know he was that young.

His Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues taught me more about comedy and comic writing than any other work of any kind ever. Parts of that adventure is sheer unadulterated genius.

Do you know if anyone ever got around to collecting his Pyramid .sigs? There was a scary amount of brilliance among those as well.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

YCBBB was wonderful, ditto the stuff he wrote for FASA's Star Trek RPG.

Re the sigs, I doubt it, unless SJG archived everything. The boards aren't googleable, I think.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Damn. He wrote the only Klingon stuff I ever liked... both in fiction and in rpgs.

John Ford and the Final Reflection

[xxmagex.livejournal.com]

I didn't know. I remember reading "The Final Reflection" back in High School and loving it. Did a great job of portraying Klingons with all their warts and complexities.

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's sad news. His writing was always wonderful, How Much For Just The Planet is one of my favourite novels and his on-line postings showed just as much intelligence and wit (this post (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005235.html) had me laughing out loud). On top of that, his articles about role-playing games in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine were what got me into role-playing games.

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

Still trying to wrap my head around that one. Sadly my library is still in transit or I'd be fishing out GURPS: Infinite Worlds or How Much For Just The Planet right now.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everything he wrote was worth reading, regardless of genre.