This is the thread for people who died, died.

[the innominate one]

Astronaut John Young died.

[Warren]

Can't top Alan Shepard practicing hitting out of the sand.

Nothing can really.

[JD]

Original Motörhead guitarist "Fast Eddie" Clarke has passed away from pneumonia at age 67. He was the last surviving member of the original lineup.

[dead_elvis]

I played the shit out of this album back in the day. R.I.P. Fast Eddie, thanks for the hearing loss.

[Andrew]

It's a wonder that 2/3 of the classic Motorhead lineup lived to 65+. I can't even imagine the amphetamine intake it required to tour and play as fast and loud as No Sleep Til Hammersmith... every night.

[Kolohe]

It would have been nice for Dolores O'Riordan to linger around this world a bit longer.

This was my favorite of their songs

[Jasper]

It would have been nice for Dolores O'Riordan to linger around this world a bit longer.

This was my favorite of their songs

Oh. Damn.

[thoreau]

Damn, we keep losing 90's rockers. Hopefully when I reflect back on 2018 I won't be looking back in anger.

[Jasper]

It's unfortunate that the grayed-out play button on the youtube played makes her look like she has broken teeth.

[D.A. Ridgely]

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, 88.

[Mo]

She missed her film debut

[Sandy]

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, 88.

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

[Eric the .5b]

She missed her film debut

Is there a film project in the works? I know there's a miniseries version of Left Hand of Darkness she was attached to.

[D.A. Ridgely]

She missed her film debut

Are you sure you're not thinking of Madeleine L'Engle (who btw missed her film debut by a decade)?

[Mo]

Doh. Was thinking of L'Engle at the time, which is weird because she died a decade ago.

[tr0g]

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, 88.

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

As it is with so many of them, great writer, retarded politics. She wins big points with me for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the original Earthsea trilogy.

[Kolohe]

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, 88.

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

As it is with so many of them, great writer, retarded politics. She wins big points with me for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the original Earthsea trilogy.

Someone on Twitter (Arthur Chu of all people) made a good point that she was very willing to poke holes in her own politics - i.e. The Dispossessed is mostly about how a anarcho-communist SJW utopia is deeply flawed, as the main plot and point of view is from someone fleeing such a society as a refugee)

[Kolohe]

I mean, constrast with Heinlein, who thought he had the answer to everything. (and Asimov somwhere in the middle of those poles of certitude)

[Warren]

Well the thing about Heinlein is he kept realizing his answer to everything was just another problem only to find a new answer to everything.

[lunchstealer]

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, 88.

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

As it is with so many of them, great writer, retarded politics. She wins big points with me for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the original Earthsea trilogy.

Someone on Twitter (Arthur Chu of all people) made a good point that she was very willing to poke holes in her own politics - i.e. The Dispossessed is mostly about how a anarcho-communist SJW utopia is deeply flawed, as the main plot and point of view is from someone fleeing such a society as a refugee)

I HAAAATED that book when I read it, but the more I think about it, the more interesting it is as a critical study of a hypothetical political/economic culture. But GAWD is it dry for most of the book. And the whole refugee thing at the end was just kind of baffling, but I may have been just beaten down by the plodding prose and glacial pace of the first three quarters of the book. I never have read anything else she did. I got a copy of The Left Hand of Darkness but never brought my self to open it.

[Jadagul]

I loved the original Earthsea trillogy. Book 4 was also pretty good, but a bit heavy-handed politically. (And written like 20 years after the first three, so I consider it a separate venture).

I also really liked Left Hand of Darkness. Weird fucking book, but good and interesting.

[D.A. Ridgely]

I loved the original Earthsea trillogy. Book 4 was also pretty good, but a bit heavy-handed politically. (And written like 20 years after the first three, so I consider it a separate venture).

I also really liked Left Hand of Darkness. Weird fucking book, but good and interesting.

The Left Hand of Darkness should be on anyone's contemporary American literature reading list.

[Andrew]

I recall liking the first Earthsea book, but the 2nd was a big wtf to me after the first. I don't recall the third, and I think I skipped the 4th since it sounded like a continuation of the second. It's been many years, though, so perhaps I should reread them.

I just read "The Word for the World is Forest" by her in Again, Dangerous Visions. It was... not good. It's the 2nd in the Hainish books (after Left Hand and before Dispossessed) and reading it definitely doesn't make me want to read the others. It was as subtle as a Captain Planet episode.

[Solitudinarian]

Mark E. Smith is dead at 60. Thank you, God.

[dhex]

he was only 60?