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[Obit] The Falling Torch

Via Locus Online:

Death: Algis Budrys

SF author, critic, and editor Algis Budrys, born 1931, died this morning, June 9, 2008, at the age of 77. He began publishing in 1952 with short fiction in Astounding, Galaxy, and other magazines; notable stories include "The End of Summer" (1954), "Nobody Bothers Gus" (1955), "The Edge of the Sea" (1958, a Hugo nominee), "Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night" (1961), and "The Silent Eyes of Time" (1975, a Hugo nominee). His first novel was False Night (1954), revised in 1961 as Some Will Not Die; later novels included Who? (1958, a Hugo nominee), The Falling Torch (1959), classic Rogue Moon -- about matter transmission and an alien labyrinth on the moon, an expansion of novella "Rogue Moon" included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1960, a Hugo nominee as a novel), The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn (1967), Michaelmas (1977), and Hard Landing (1993, a Nebula nominee). He wrote critical reviews for Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the 1960s and '70s, many collected in Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf (1985, a Hugo nominee and winner of a Locus Award). Since the mid 1980s he was associated with the Writers of the Future program for new writers, sponsored by the Church of Scientology, and he edited many of the annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthologies from 1985 to present. He was also editor of magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, which lasted 24 issues from 1993 to 1997, and was twice nominated for a Hugo Award in the semi-professional magazine category. In 2007 Budrys won a Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship.

Guilty guilty guilty

( Reuters: Kucinich reads 35 Articles of Impeachment against Bush on the House floor. )

They call me MISTER Kucinich

More on last night's Dennis bad-assery and a very rough transcript of the first 10 minutes of his speech. Still waiting on the major media outlets to pick up on this.

ETA: Thanks to tigerbright for the link to the full set of articles on kucinich.us.

( Raw Story: Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles. )

Avenue Jew

By way of Mark Evanier:

The Easter Bonnet Competition is an annual benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. In 2004, the cast of Avenue Q and Fiddler on the Roof put together this little mash-up (article and script here):