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The Curse of 2016...
Jan. 20th, 2016 08:10 am ...finally got very personal for a lot of SF/F fans. Tor editor David Hartwell just died.
I didn't know him, not really, though he was the editor of many people I know very well, so I've heard a lot of stories over the years.
The one thing I knew about Hartwell before I met him was that he liked to wear funky, cool ties. When he was one of the Guests of Honor at Diveriscon in 2011, I pulled out some of my grandfather's ties and wore them. We talked ties. He helped me correctly identify the era from which my grandpa's ties came from and I told him that I'd heard that my grandpa and grandma used to go dancing a lot, and I always liked to imagine I was wearing a "dancing" tie (though, in truth, they were probably just grandpa's work ties.) We talked about a museum exhibit of ties that Hartwell had gone to. Then, I think I was lucky enough to go out to dinner with him and a bunch of other people and we all managed to mostly successfully avoid bringing up some of the touchier subjects in Hartwell's life (such as his wife's involvement in the infamous 'Racefail.')
The only other thing I can say is, what the hell 2016?
I didn't know him, not really, though he was the editor of many people I know very well, so I've heard a lot of stories over the years.
The one thing I knew about Hartwell before I met him was that he liked to wear funky, cool ties. When he was one of the Guests of Honor at Diveriscon in 2011, I pulled out some of my grandfather's ties and wore them. We talked ties. He helped me correctly identify the era from which my grandpa's ties came from and I told him that I'd heard that my grandpa and grandma used to go dancing a lot, and I always liked to imagine I was wearing a "dancing" tie (though, in truth, they were probably just grandpa's work ties.) We talked about a museum exhibit of ties that Hartwell had gone to. Then, I think I was lucky enough to go out to dinner with him and a bunch of other people and we all managed to mostly successfully avoid bringing up some of the touchier subjects in Hartwell's life (such as his wife's involvement in the infamous 'Racefail.')
The only other thing I can say is, what the hell 2016?