Friday, February 12, 2021

GOODBYE, JAMES EDWIN GUNN...

Your passing came with an insolent, media-deaf blind eye, but for a throng of grateful admirers, you were the supreme, science-fiction scholar who ushered them down roads both audacious and prodigious.

Among your many sagacious works, there is the Immortals (the basis for the ABC's television series); Star Bridge; the Millennium Blues; the Dreamers; the End of the Dreamsthe Listeners; Gift from the Stars; the Fortress World; Crisis!; the BurningPowder Keg; the Joy MakersStar Trek: the Joy Machine (based on Theodore Sturgeon's unfilmed treatment); Kampus; the Witching Hour; the BurningBreaking Point; Some Dreams Are NightmaresFuture Imperfect; Human VoicesTranscendental; Transgalactic; Transformation; the Magicians and its related Sine of Magus

Your words have (and always shall) reverberate, Mr. Gunn, exceeding beyond any mere epitaph. Readers of the future, therefore, are fated to praise your foundation as much as those of the past and present, savoring each creative crevasse carved by your sharp and illuminating intellect.  

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