Philip Jose Farmer died today

[Jaqhama]

One of the grand masters of sci-fi and fantasy adventure passed away today.

Philip Jose Farmer.
He was the second author I ever read. (ERB was the first.)
I loved many of his books and it's thanks to him and other 'old time' authors that I write myself today.

Life's a bitch and then you die.
And thus your ashes fill the sky.
Go now and walk down Heaven's long halls.
Eternity beckons, forever calls.
Jaqhama 2006.

[che2000]

Farmer was one of the greats and, as I said on the SF Reader forums, one of the few sf writers who could be really filthy when the mood took him.

There's a scene in Image of the Beast and one in A Feast Unknown which bring tears to my eyes just thinking about them.