RIP Gene Van Troyer

Oh its very shocking -Gene  has been very regular on this forum and was a friend, philosopher and friend kind of persona for us  -he expressed his  views on various aspects of Sf on the forum from time to time and often showed the light and right path to choose whenever there happened to be some impasse in discussions in between us on the forum !
I PERSONALLY feel very  much deprived and bereaved on the demise of this visionary sf writer and critic.

He was full of optimism but oh the cruel death does not spare any one this mortal land -perhaps he has gone to inhabit one of those planets of his sf stories which  as a rule abounds with immortal lives .

When I talked him last I  did not realize that his health was  deteriorated  to the extent that the end was too near  ...he accepted that writing in sitting posture was getting increasingly difficult for him but I felt that this man of great optimism and determination would come out of all this and shall have the last laugh ! ALAS ! as ill luck would have it it could not happen so ....

May all mighty give his family enough strength to withstand the great loss .

Arvind

Kurodahan Press, which published Speculative Japan, has his this  brief bio data -

Gene van Troyer was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He has been writing poetry and science fiction since he was about 13 years old and began selling it professionally when he was around 20. He joined Science Fiction Writers of America as an active member in 1971, and has been a member continuously since. In 1973 Fred Pohl helped him connect with Shibano Takumi, and when he came to Japan in 1974 as an exchange student at Waseda University’s International Division, Shibano introduced him to the Nihon SF Honyaku Benkyō-Kai, after which he became a translation consultant to such translators and writers as Yano Tetsu, Shibano, Asakura Hisashi, Itō Norio, Imaoka Kiyoshi (Hayakawa SF Magazine editor at that time), Sako Mariko, Ōtani Jun, Fukami Dan, and many others. From 1975 through 1980 he had a regular critical review column of American science fiction in SF Magazine’s “SF Scanner” section, and continued to write reviews for SF Magazine through 1994. His own fiction and poetry has appeared in Eternity, Vertex, Last Wave, Amazing Stories SF, and Asimov’s SF. He is a past editor of Portland Review, a literary journal published by Portland State University, and Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Most recently, he edited Collaborations: A Collection of Collaborative Poetry published by Ravenna Press in Seattle, Washington (2007). He presently lives in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

2009/8/19 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

This is sad :(

I can't believe this :(

Swapnil

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM, tinkoo <tinkoo420@...> wrote:

 

<http://sfscope.com/2009/08/author-gene-van-troyer-dies.html>

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