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R.I.P. Jay Lake
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Jun 01, 2014 09:34AM
SF/F Jay Lake, author of the steampunk Mainspring Universe and fantasy Green Universe series, among others, has passed away. Mr. Lake has been struggling with cancer for the last several years. He won the Campbell Best New Writer Award in 2004. ()
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:( I've been following his blog for the last few years. It was really odd for me. I'd stopped checking daily for a week or two, because neither he nor Lisa Costello were updating it frequently, and then checked it on the night of the 31st and read the post that he hadn't died.
I got up the next morning, checked Twitter, and discovered he'd passed in the meantime.
I think I may have met him at a convention about a decade ago.
He will be missed.
I met Jay briefly back in 04, he was a special guy and he'll be missed. Amy Sundberg wrote something I really appreciated about his death and her loss.
