Multi Hugo award winner Philip José Farmer has died

[satori]

Philip José Farmer, the multi-Hugo award winning author of the Riverworld books and many others has died

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/02/25/obit.farmer/index.html

I can't even explain how sad this makes me.
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