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darkbow
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  		   Posted 7/17/2006 9:32 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Mickey Spillane, creator of Mike Hammer, has passed away at 88.
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erazmus
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  		   Posted 7/18/2006 2:13 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Oh Man!
Pretty much the last of his generation, a great writer and masterful stylist.
Mike

Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #9 Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises

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  		   Posted 7/18/2006 6:49 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Man!
This is too bad but he had a long run and made a great contribution.
The title: I, the Jury is a pinnacle all in itself.

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"Writing the wet dreams of teenage boys" - Lindsey Llyod, Tangent Reviews

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  		   Posted 7/18/2006 7:45 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
this is sad news. He was a great writer.

Janrae Frank

Once there were three brothers, Brandrahoon the vampire, Isranon called the Dawnhand, speaker to spirits, and Waejonan the Accursed, first of sa’necari. Isranon defied his brothers and was destroyed, his descendants forced into the darkness.

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