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First of the year... [Jan. 3rd, 2008|08:59 pm]
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I spent yesterday working, deliberately didn't look even once at the Net, and today Diane tells me that this happened:

George MacDonald Fraser's Times obituary.

George MacDonald Fraser's Telegraph obituary.

George MacDonald Fraser's The Independent obituary.

So there'll be no more Flashman, and his last book (correcting Neil Gaiman here, who thought it was The Light's On At Signpost) was only that wretched nonsense The Reavers. I don't take back one word of what I posted last October, so though I might read a Flashman novel later on, right now I'm going to pull down The Pyrates. That's how entertaining anachronistic romps should be done.

Rest easy, Mr Fraser. You've become part of the history you wrote about so well.
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[User Picture]From: [info]la_marquise_de_
2008-01-03 09:42 pm (UTC)

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Flags are at half-mast here. Sad news. (But the marquis rather enjoyed The Reavers.)
[User Picture]From: [info]burntcopper
2008-01-03 11:05 pm (UTC)

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I think my phrase was '...dammit'. partly because flashman was part of my early teens, like I claudius and all the other strange historical fiction my dad's into, and partly because my dad's been going on and on about GMF not yet writing the civil war book he alludes to so often in other flashman epics.
[User Picture]From: [info]bellinghman
2008-01-04 08:08 am (UTC)

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It only hit the BBC site at 23:30 or so, so you probably wouldn't have seen it then anyway.

Perhaps he deliberately timed his departure to be just in time for the newspapers to get their obits in. As an old newspaper man himself, he knew the importance of deadlines.

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