British fantasy and science fiction author Robert Holdstock(1948-2009) died today aged
61, from an e. coli infection. He had been ill for week
and a half, but the reports through Ansible on his health seemed promising in the last few days.
He was a leading British fantasy author of the last quarter century, writer of imaginative fantasy of high standard. An heir to the great British fantasy
writers of the past, like Eddison, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. His Mythago Wood sequence shows that there is more modern fantasy can do than to
just produce copies of Tolkien's work.
and a half, but the reports through Ansible on his health seemed promising in the last few days.
He was a leading British fantasy author of the last quarter century, writer of imaginative fantasy of high standard. An heir to the great British fantasy
writers of the past, like Eddison, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. His Mythago Wood sequence shows that there is more modern fantasy can do than to
just produce copies of Tolkien's work.
