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Gordon R. Dickson: "This one is going to be a somber one. Gordon R. Dickson died this year, just recently as I write this, at age 77. In an era wherein we grow accustomed to people hitting 80 and 90 plus, it's beginning to seem a bit unfair when someone we love goes 'so soon.' But really 77 is not a bad run when you consider what life expectancies used to be and, in most of the rest of the world, still are. It's just that when it comes to certain people, we really want them to stay around forever. Especially those who meant something to us when we were growing up and beginning to embrace the cool things which would form the foundations of our life's aesthetics"