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Terri Luanna Mountainborne Robinson da Silva, daughter of Spider and the late Jeanne Robinson, is now in The Undiscovered Country, occurring Friday, December 5th, 2014, at the age of 40 years, due to Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (which she described as "the most common form of breast cancer"). Waiting for their time to greet her again are her father Spider Robinson, her husband Heron da Silva, her daughter Marissa ("Miss M"), and a huge extended family of relatives and intimate friends, as well as many, many more distant friends around the world.

The announcement came from Laurie O'Neal ("Auntie L") on Terri's WordPress weblog about her life with cancer, "gracefulwomanwarrior" [ http :// gracefulwomanwarrior . com ], and on her Facebook page [ https :// www. facebook . com / pages / Gracefulwomanwarrior / 247095598695612 ] (remove spaces to access the links, of course).

With the name Luanna Mountainborne, she was depicted as dancing on Luna in 1/6 gravity in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein.

A crowdfunding request for her medical expenses is at [ https :// www . youcaring . com / medical - fundraiser / terri - s - stage - 4 - cancer - fight / 269274 ]

A crowdfunding request for her memorial is at [ http :// www . gofundme . com / icqknk ]

(Again, remove spaces to access the links.)

This information comes from openly accessible web pages and public announcements, no confidences are being violated.

Many happy returns, and welcome to rasff

Apologies for the Russian spam; I've taken steps to (I hope) make the community less open to passers-by, and it shouldn't happen again.

A list I'm on, of cranky old farts like myself who remember when fandom = fanzines = paperbygodfanzines, included a shocking number of people who don't know the name James Nicoll, and were indignant to see him nominated as a Fan Writer when he neither publishes a fanzine nor LoCs fanzines.

Hey, I think he's one of the more fannish nominees on the list!

I just found out ComCast.net doesn't offer a usenet server... BOTHER! Can someone recommend one, free if posable.

For the duration of the 2008 Hugo campaign, Ian McDonald, Robert J. Sawyer, John Scalzi, Charles Stross and their respective publishers are making special electronic editions of their Hugo-nominated works available at request to 2008 Hugo voters. The authors have put together a package of their books for the voters’ convenience. Where can they get these special editions? Well, right here, of course!

2008 Hugo voters are eligible. To be a Hugo voter, you must be a member of Denvention 3, this year’s Worldcon.

This is Charlie at the small beer party in his honor, the night he arrived in Seattle to start his signing tour for Halting State. While he was animated most of the evening, he was, after all, running on too little sleep and too much economy class airtravel, and so I accidentally caught him looking about as tired as he must have been feeling.

enjoy

LOL Trek

Minicon 42 is this weekend and folks will be posting news & accounts and other stuff to minicon42_2007. Also of note: mnstf

Both communities are open to anyone, of course. If you want to play the Minicon home game, that's cool too! (You'll have to provide your own grenadine).

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contains the seven part SF oriented story "Connections," which I am currently converting
into a written word short story as well. The dialog is layered onto futuristic ambient
soundscapes, which differ for each part.