tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post5661222010896327763..comments2024-03-24T14:47:00.370-07:00Comments on Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: Gardner DozoisAl Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-18922936512945541582018-07-21T12:52:33.647-07:002018-07-21T12:52:33.647-07:00Thank you Al. Such a sad loss. Just a few days ago...Thank you Al. Such a sad loss. Just a few days ago, I started the latest Year's Best... e-book, and read in the Passings section at the end of the Year in Review: 2017 introductory chapter that his wife had passed away that year. Hull_City_USAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12095880896077642463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-63684066577720167532018-05-30T16:47:58.200-07:002018-05-30T16:47:58.200-07:00He was a giant in the field. A keen eye for a good...He was a giant in the field. A keen eye for a good story and new talent. He was one guy I'd hoped to meet up at Aussiecon 4, besides yourself Al, but alas, he stuck to mainly U.S. WorldCons. He will be missed enormously as he was so well liked and respected by so many. <br />Great words Al. Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567709389917116377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-60546627499219889842018-05-29T11:31:49.078-07:002018-05-29T11:31:49.078-07:00Thanks a lot for your heartfelt appreciation! He c...Thanks a lot for your heartfelt appreciation! He contacted me spontaneously several times in the last few years and selected an Asimov'SF cover as a cover for the 32nd American collection.In October he asked me the address email and a portfolio of recent stuff... then just last week Macmillan called me again and I signed an Agreement for a fragment of my previous illustration to be published again on the upcoming "The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction" edited by Gardner Dozois. It was hard to accept the news during the weekend... Very best, Maurizio Manzieri.--MManzierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036117526536523528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-41351904330003718492018-05-29T09:35:24.608-07:002018-05-29T09:35:24.608-07:00Beautifully said and told. The wonderful thing abo...Beautifully said and told. The wonderful thing about Gardner is that there so many wonderful things about him. His devotion to SF and his embrace of its breadth is revealed not only in the indispensable YEAR'S BESTs but also in the less well-known but superb anthologies of past stories fundamental to one aspect or avenue of the field or another. And he was for a third of a century one of our best ongoing historians: your "state of the nation" description of his summations is spot-on and is how, now and from now on, I will think of those pieces, which I still turn to often. Thanks for this superb remembrance of the grand Gardner Dozois and what he meant to you in helping bring your work to us. KeithKeith Ferrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08888295556045780921noreply@blogger.com