Janet Kagan Dies

[filkertom]

Sadness. Janet Kagan, Hugo-winning author of Uhura's Song, Hellspark, and Mirabile, has passed away. I think she was going to be 62 later this year, but I'm having trouble finding her birth date.

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[sazettel.livejournal.com]

That is so sad. And so young!

I got a chance to meet her once, at the Nebulas in New Orleans. She impressed me as a very nice person. We had a great, silly chat during which we decided that in the mythology of SF, Isaac Asimov was the equivalent of Zues, and Harlan Ellison was clearly Coyote, because everyone knew a story about him, and he was either going to be behaving with incredible power and cleverness, or terrible stupidity and you could never be sure which.

My sympathies to her family and friends.