Michael F. Flynn, R.l.P.
Mar. 3rd, 2024 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenThere is a one page In Memoriam piece by Stanley Schmidt in the latest issue of Analog, reporting on the life and death of Michael F. Flynn, the sf author and statistician (not Michael T. Flynn, the Trumpist general). I remember reading Michael Flynn’s first story in Analog, “Slan Libh,” forty or so years ago; he went on to write many more stories, novels, and non-fiction pieces, and at least one physical letter to me (responding to a letter I had sent to Analog criticizing a couple of points in his “Introduction to Psychohistory” article).
He was an impressively skilled author, whom I had the privilege of interacting with at an sf convention once. I greeted him with, “Ave, Michaelis Eastoniensis.” He died in his childhood home in Easton, Pennsylvania, predeceased by his wife of forty-nine years, and survived by several siblings, children, and grandchildren. Michael, we could use more like you. Rest In Peace.
He was an impressively skilled author, whom I had the privilege of interacting with at an sf convention once. I greeted him with, “Ave, Michaelis Eastoniensis.” He died in his childhood home in Easton, Pennsylvania, predeceased by his wife of forty-nine years, and survived by several siblings, children, and grandchildren. Michael, we could use more like you. Rest In Peace.
