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August 07, 2006
The Black-Bordered Blog
One of the few SF authors I ve spoken to died recently: David Feintuch. Those who knew him better remember him as an accomplished, imaginative lawyer and SF/F author who loved antiques. Having struggled until midlife to become published, he was always encouraging to rising authors. He won the 1996 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for his first novel, Midshipman s Hope. He is remembered for his military SF series (all of which have Hope in the title http://www.nickseafort.com/index-1024.htm) and two works of Fantasy: The Still and The King. This chat transcript gives a good sense of his personality and thinking about SF:
http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/1999/DavidFeintuch.html
A selection of posts where he discusses his own work:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/a7fd9816f6c2a6f9/75b54b2690d9aad5?hl=en#75b54b2690d9aad5
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/20d12681cf0590ce/d2da73cf7acf5524?hl=en#d2da73cf7acf5524
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/20d12681cf0590ce/32d5bb3823fc33a0?hl=en#32d5bb3823fc33a0
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/74ea460cb1d6780a/9342d34691165229?lnk=st&q=&rnum=8#9342d34691165229
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/db5267123dceef9f/441f312a9f5a9da2?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#441f312a9f5a9da2
Obit from The Independent:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/638502c8f9749447/24063bc7209a7367?lnk=st&q=&rnum=2&hl=en#24063bc7209a7367
SFWA Obit and Tribute:
http://www.sfwa.org/news/2006/dfeintuch.htm
Official Site:
http://www.cris.com/~writeman/
-LV
Posted by lisav at 10:13 PM