Andrew J. Offutt (1934 - 2013)

[james_davis_nicoll]

shsilver reports the death of editor/writer Andrew J. Offutt.

Comments

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Aw.

Notable for writing one thing that I loved (Rails Across the Galaxy) and another that sickened me so much I couldn't finish it (Evil is Live Spelled Backwards).

[seawasp]

Well, that sucks. One more gone. I liked some of his stuff a lot.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Even though recent rereads have detected the telltale sign of the Sexism Fairy, I still really enjoyed the War of Wizards trilogy, which he coauthored with Richard Lyon.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed a couple of his novels, back when. I wish I remembered them better. (I donated them to the HS library before graduating.)

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Was it alcohol, do you know?

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

At that age I doubt it. Rafael Lafferty and Pat Frank are the longest-lived writing alkies I can think of who didn't get into AA.

(Got to meet Pat Frank once, briefly. My father wrote a history book with him, RENDEZVOUS AT MIDWAY. It was better than anything else my father wrote. Sold better, too.)

[cmattg.livejournal.com]

Aw man. I'm not sure I remember reading any of his stuff except.....Didn't he contribute to the Thieves' World books?

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Thieve's World and other things.

I picked up Ardor On Aros in an airport back in the '70s and... yeah, a pastiche of the Burroughs's Mars books, but with a really heavy dose of Sex(ism) Sells! added. Moving on, I liked his author's introduction to his short story in Again, Dangerous Visions more than the actual story (which was cute).

He's one of many mid-list authors who've given me a few hours of reading, even if they never made it to the permanent space on my bookshelves, and that's not a back-handed complement. It's a niche that I'm missing more and more.

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

The heavenly consuite just got a little livelier. RIP.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

One by one we watch our brothers set their feet upon the rainbow.