Robert Sheckley is dead
Robert Sheckley, a brilliant sci-fi master with comic and satiric mood, has died at the age of 77. I loved his short stories. He was pretty popular in Minsk (and former USSR in general, I think). I just wrote a short entry about him in the Belarusian Wikipedia.
A Russian media specialist who has a personal blog on LJ made an interesting journalistic observation: “Right now it’s 2:21 AM in Moscow. Sheckley died approximately 8-10 hours ago. The first blog entry about his death appeared at 22:39 Moscow time (14:39 ET). At this moment there are several dozens of Russian entries about his passing, in Russian (according to a Russian search engine). And there’s not a single story neither on Google News, nor on Yahoo! News. Traditional media space, which invested billions of dollars into the infrasctructure for news digging, is losing the battle to free blogosphere, lagging at least 4 hours. In the future the gap will be widening.”
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December 10th, 2005 at 4:09 am
Yes, RIP. He was published in “Юный Техник” for example, I read him there. Offtopic: sorry, I did not respond to your comment on flickr.com, I did not get notified.