Message no. 1

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Anders Swenson)
Subject:	OT Re: Poul Anderson, the end
Date:	Thu Aug 2 00:10:01 2001

----- Original Message -----
> . This was FWD to me by Steve Perrin
>
> Friends --
>
> It's with a heavy heart that I write that my father, Poul Anderson is
> receiving hospice care at
> home and is not expected to live more than a week. I know that some of
> you are fans of his
> work, and if you would care to send an e-mail direct to my parents house
> (trigonier@*********.net) expressing what it has meant to you, he would
> be very appreciative. I'll be going down there myself tomorrow (they're
> in the Bay Area), so will not be getting mail here for a few days.
>
> Astrid Bear
>
>
A last posting about Poul, dated today:


"We brought Poul home from Alta Bates for terminal hospice care.
We gave him Jubilaeum Akvavit, Carlsberg Beer and Boeuf Tartare.
We gave him all our love. About midght, he slipped away."

signed Karen, Astrid and the rest of the Andersons.

Please pass this around verbatim and in toto.

Everyone is encouraged to repost without alteration.

This is Anders: Poul wrote a lot of great SF. While he didn't specifically
address cyberpunk themes, he wrote the stories that were the
basis for a lot of genres and lifted the level of Science Fiction in
general.