Stanislaw Lem Dies in Krakow

1Eye wrote to mention that well-known SF author Stanislaw Lem passed away today. The Polish author was 84, and was probably best known for the novel 'Solaris'. From the AP article: "Solaris, published in 1961 and set on an isolated space stations, was made into a film epic 10 years later by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and into a 2002 Hollywood remake shot by Steven Sodebergh and starring George Clooney."

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Uh... Octavia Butler died a couple weeks ago

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and there's not ONE mention of it on Slashdot. She's easily the better writer than he was. I don't understand why SHE of all the SF writers was not given her props on Slashdot.