Leo Frankowski (1943 - 2008)

[james_davis_nicoll]

editrx has relayed the news that she was informed that Leo Frankowski died yesterday.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Man, that's young.

To my shame, I actually kinda like the cross-time engineer books.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

It was the one with the rape scene that did me in.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Me too. If there's a reason to view him as a loss, someone else is going to have to tell me.

It wasn't just a rape scene. It was a rape justified from early in the book, with her friends in favor of it.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Is this the one where she gets dragged off to the bedroom and everyone else makes jokes about the screaming?

[yendi]

Yep. And "everyone else" includes no one but the other women, who actually conspire to ensure that it'll happen, because they're sure (correctly, thanks to Frankowski's gloriously fucked-up worldview) that the victim will fall in love with the man after he's raped her.

Oh Really?

[orthosophy.livejournal.com]

I just re-read (for probably the 10th time) and I was under the impression that she was menstruating and that is why is was her blood on the sheets. Shoot me if I'm wrong. Leo was kind of a flake, but a page about his death isn't where I'm going to insult him. Even the blogs are pretty funny at times, and he certainly has a style.

While I'm at it, if you read his webpage focusing on the blogs and then his Co-author's work (Empire of Texas), it is glaringly obvious that "his" writing was what we saw in the first 6 books and "Conrad's Crusade" (at least the bad parts) reads more like Rodger Olson (or whatever his name is. I'm not going back to look).

This is way after the fact because I found this looking for other things.

Re: Oh Really?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

This is way after the fact because I found this looking for other things.

Given that I recently left a message on the pyr-o-mania blog on an entry that was two years old, I can't really point fingers here.

Re: Oh Really?

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

"In truth, my leg wound had opened a bit in the struggle, but what's a little blood on the sheets on your first night with a woman? Well, admittedly, it was the wrong person's blood, but one can't have everything."

You know, for sheer sporkiness, this stuff beats The Starlost hands-down.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

You're misremembering. The crowd outside the door is mixed, and includes "Father Thomas, the priest".