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sfcrowsnest.com - 6/3/2009

David Eddings passes away

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Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way for a ...

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thebookseller.com - 6/3/2009

Fantasy writer David Eddings dies

— thebookseller.com — 03.06.09 Graeme Neill Bestselling fantasy author David Eddings, who wrote The Belgariad and The Malloreon series, has... died aged 77. Jane Johnson, publishing director at Eddings' UK publisher HarperCollins, paid tribute to the author. HarperCollins ... (more) Fantasy writer David Eddings dies

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darkfantasy.org - 6/3/2009

A Window of Wonder Closes: David Eddings

— darkfantasy.org — But something happened when I read Pawn of Prophecy that had never happened to me before when... I’d read a fantasy novel. Quite simply, quite ridiculously, I fell in love–not just with the prose, not just with the setting, not just with the action and adventure and wit and ideas. I ... (more) A Window of Wonder Closes: David Eddings

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threetreesstudios.com - 6/4/2009

David Eddings Has Died

— threetreesstudios.com — Best known for his high fantasy series the Belgariad and Mallorea n series of author David Eddings... died. He was 77 years old. His wife Leigh, who had helped write the novels died in 2007 after having multiple strokes. Having suffered from dementia for the last year the death of David Eddings ... (more) David Eddings Has Died

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RIP: David Eddings
The Book Swede & His Blog — Wow. Blimey. Sad news today that David Eddings , aged 77, died yesterday evening . The Belgariad series was one of my favourites when I first discovered fantasy, and I still remember creeping down the stairs into the dingy basement of a used bookshop in my town, and encountering the first book, Pawn of Prophecy , flicking through it, and just reading for hours. This was at a time when my father felt I was doing altogether too much reading and altogether not enough schoolwork, socialising or hard, physical graft down t' pit , and so had banned me from buying any more books. ...

RIP David Eddings
The Wertzone — SF Crow's Nest broke the news this morning that fantasy author David Eddings passed away last night at the age of 77. Eddings is best-known as the author of the five-volume Belgariad series of novels published in the early 1980s. Alongside Terry Brooks' Shannara books, Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar series and Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels, they are credited with establishing the subgenre of modern epic fantasy. ...

David Eddings, at 77
Fantasy Book Critic — ... I learned by Stephen Hunt that David Eddings passed away yesterday night, age 77. According to Hunt, "his commercial success paved the way for a whole generation of doorstopper sized fantasy series." Apparently, he died of a stroke - the same thing that, in 2007, took the life of his wife, Leigh Eddings, with whom he had written several of his books. He never recovered from her loss. Though I never read any of his books (yet), I was saddened by the news and pays my respects to his family, in ...

David Eddings has passed away
Club Jade — The author of the bestselling Belgariad and Malloreon fantasy series has died last night at the age of 77. As one of the giants of epic 80’s fantasy, Eddings has been an inspiration and influence to many.

June 4, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — It's the start of the day and I'm literally drenched. RIP David Eddings. And here's an interesting mix of actual Philippine politics and speculative fiction. Interviews At the Nebula Awards Blog, Cat Rambo interviews Mary Rosenblum. Jeremiah Tolbert interviews Greg van Eekhout. Jay Tomio interviews Paul S. Kemp. Neth Space interviews Mark Chadbourn. Eileen Gunn interviews Nisi Shawl. John Picacio interviews Dave Nalle. Selena Chambers ...

David Eddings
Fantasy Debut — I was sad to read about David Eddings. For some reason, I thought he was in his 50s or 60s. Stephen Hunt has a nice article about him at SF Crowsnest. ...