Comments | msagara: Martin H. Greenberg

msagara

Martin H. Greenberg

Jun 26, 2011 22:51

Word is slowly filtering out. Martin H. Greenberg, of Tekno books, died in his sleep, at home, yesterday morning. I met Marty a number of times, because he came to the DAW dinners at various worldcons over the past two decades. DAW published a lot of his anthologies, and he was always invited. He was a tall man, and he was a gentleman; he was ( Read more... )

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kiarrith June 27 2011, 03:43:57 UTC

fuck.
please pardon the profanity but thats the first and large thing that comes to mind.
for a large part of my life i knew that an anthology with this name on it was awesome....

aberwyn June 27 2011, 03:45:50 UTC

As for the contretemps, there was quite a difference of legal opinion about that contract language. It's doubtful whether Marty made any mistake at all.

gows June 27 2011, 04:33:02 UTC

*sigh* Some of my favorite collections were edited by him. What a loss.

maiac June 27 2011, 12:02:03 UTC

This is sad news. His anthologies and Marty himself are a huge part of science fiction.

He will be greatly missed.

anonymous June 27 2011, 18:05:03 UTC

I hadn't heard...I have several double shelves dedicated to his anthologies...They've always been favorites of mine. Condolences - to all of us.