Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!uwvax!puff!hammen
From: hammen@puff.UUCP (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.rumor
Subject: Re: Frank Herbert!!!  Please say it isn't so!!!
Message-ID: <684@puff.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 19:41:12 EST
Article-I.D.: puff.684
Posted: Sun Mar  9 19:41:12 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Mar-86 07:05:00 EST
References: <389@chinet.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: Betelgeuse V
Lines: 15
Keywords: frank herbert, dune
Xref: lsuc net.sf-lovers:6232 net.rumor:836
Summary: yes, it's true

In article <389@chinet.UUCP>, blm@chinet.UUCP (Brad L. McKinley) types:
> Someone told me today that Frank Herbert recently died.  If so, science
> fiction has lost in my opinion its' greatest creative genius.  I've read
> the "Dune" series up through "Chapterhouse: Dune" and I can say without
> question that it is THE most impressive work I've read in science fiction.
> 
> Is this just a bad rumor?  I normally don't read this group so if this has

	Yes, it's true. Frank Herbert died at the University Hospital here a 
couple of weeks back.  I'm not sure when or of what.

Robert J. Hammen	{ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!uwvax!puff!hammen
U. of Wisc. CS Dept.
U. of Wisc. Plasma Physics Dept.
Manta Software Corp.