Gahan Wilson is a wonderfully twisted cartoonist. I first saw his work in the pages of Playboy and later in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Gahan Wilson cartoons have a kind of sad/horrible/funny feel to them. One of the cartoons from F&SF had two robots standing over a rotting corpse sitting at a table, one of the robots speaks-He hasn’t eaten anything in weeks, I’m starting to worry about him. The Wife has been a big fan of Sci Fi for a long time and used to read the wonderfully odd Omni Magazine, where Gahan Wilson also contributed the occasional bit…
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Arthur C Clarke Dies at 90
With the death of Arthur C Clarke, the list of great science fiction writers from the Golden Age has dropped to one-Ray Bradbury. Issac Asimov and Robert A Heinlein have been gone for some time and they seemed like relics from another time even then. I have not been a huge reader of modern science fiction, most of it feels as if it has lost it’s way. Harlan Ellison is among the last generation that grew up without television poisoning their creativity. And Harlan is no spring chicken himself. I loved 2001:A Space Odyssey, though to be honest, I never…