[Hobbit]

Just picking up information on this one.
From his website: (http://www.jamesphogan.com/index.php)
James P. Hogan died suddenly on July 12, 2010. He was alone at his home in Ireland at the time.
The exact cause of death has not yet been determined.
Jim is survived by his wife, Sheryl, and his six children.

Funnily enough – odd coincidence again! – I was looking at one of his older books yesterday (Inherit the Stars, I think!) and thinking it was due for a reread.

Met him in 2005 in Glasgow at WorldCon. Nice man.

Mark

[suciul]

I saw that on Locus Online yesterday and I was very sad since I kind of liked his books, controversies and all.

This year I reviewed what may turn to be his last novel Migration and it was fun, a return to his less controversial fun days - dollarians (a subtle naming of the main villains, though they are more extreme green, resources are finite, gotta conserve as much as we can, in outlook than super capitalists in opposition to his traditional humanity can do anything if it wants, no resource is finite since we can always supplant it by ingenuity, heroes) notwithstanding

[mylinar]

I saw that on Locus Online yesterday and I was very sad since I kind of liked his books, controversies and all.


I am sad to hear of his passing. Though the last book I attempted to read of his 'The Legend that was Earth', got put down as it was just not cutting it for me. I didn't know about the controversies until reading them moments ago on Wikipedia. Well, I still like a lot of his older works and 'The Proteus Operation' remains a favorite read of mine.

[David Boultbee]

Another of my childhood icons gone.

I am still influenced by the ideas in The Genesis Machine, The Two Faces of Tomorrow, and Voyage from Yesteryear, just to name a few.

He will be greatly missed. :(

David

[Engelbrecht]

Hogan seemed to me to be one of those authors who started strongly out of the gate but who couldn't keep up the good work. I liked his first three 'Giant' books (Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, Giant's Star), his The Genesis Machine, and especially his Code of the Life Maker, but disliked several of his later books enough to stop reading him.

Still, it's sad to hear of his passing.

[psikeyhackr]

I recently reread his The Two Faces of Tomorrow and Voyage from Yesteryear,

I think TFoT is better than most cyberpunk. And it just occurred to me that VfY is similar to the short story And Then There Were None but he provided an explanation for how the society evolved that way.

They are both more thought provoking than lots of current sci-fi.

psik