2008 saw many favorite stars of SF and genre-related TV, films, books, artistry and music pass away. We bid them one final adieu. They will be greatly missed, however, because they can live forever on DVD and other media, our departed friends are never too far away.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
John Phillip Law
Hazel Court
Charlton Heston
Paul Schofield
Ivan Dixon
Anthony Minghella
E. Gary Gygax
Ben Chapman
Kon Ichikawa
Roy Scheider
John Alvin
Barry Morse
Kevin Stoney
Lois Nettleton
Allan Melvin
Suzanne Pleshette
Maila Nurmi
Johnny Grant
Heath Ledger
Dick Sutcliffe
Sydney Pollack
Joseph Pevney
Alexander Courage
Mel Ferrer
Bruce Purchase
Stan Winston
Don S. Davis
Michael Turner
Larry Harmon
Evelyn Keyes
Bernie Mac
Isaac Hayes
House Peters Jr.
Michael Crichton
B.R. Chopra
Forrest J. Ackerman
Nina Foch
Robert Prosky
Majel Barrett Roddenberry
Eartha Kitt
Shame shame shame! How you could leave Arthur C. Clarke off this list is beyond me :-O.
You forgot Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the man who gave us “2001” and, after Isaac Asimov, gave us some of the most interesting science fiction books ever written and the man who gave us the communications satellite, without which the way we communicate would still be with heavy cables strung out all over the place and no satellite radio and possibly no hi-def tv.
Don’t ask me why I left him off. He was my favorite all-time author and was at the top of the list. Must have been a slip of the eye…or else I am still in denial over his being gone from us.
Shouldn’t Robert Aspirin also be on that list?
I have no doubt that there will be others who have died in 2008 that we missed on the list.
You know, looking back, it didn’t seem like that many had passed just this year…and let’s face it, that law of 3’s is totally bogus…
Sad year.
It is sad to lose such amazing people
Time marches on and the cycle of life comes to an end
still hard to see these folk leave the planet
Thank you for the list!
Thank you for this list!
Some corrections, though…
Michael Crichton
Forrest J Ackerman (No period after J)
Robert Prosky
Bernie Mac was a surprise for me. He was pretty young (in today’s terms) yet he died. I didn’t think he was working so hard to entertain us. I will miss him greatly.