Lucius Shepard and Margo MacDonald
Posted in Events dear boy. Events, Fantasy, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 14 April 2014
Due to my house move I missed commemorating at the times the demise of both Margo MacDonald, former SNP MP and independent MSP, and writer Lucius Shepard.
It says a lot for the esteem in which MacDonald was held by the wider public that she was able to gain a seat in the Scottish Parliament on the list system as an independent.
In recent years her campaign for the right to assisted dying (she was suffering from Parkinson’s disease) was carried out with a dignity which ensured that her views and comments commanded respect.
Luius Shepard’s fiction is elusive to pigeonhole, morphing from Science Fiction to fantasy and bordering on magic realism. He was always readable, though, and intelligent.
Margo MacDonald, 19/4/1943 – 4/4/2014, Lucius Shepard, 21/8/1943 – 18/3/2014. So it goes.
Tags: Fantasy, Lucius Shepard, Magic Realism, Margo MacDonald, Science Fiction
Denis Cullinan
14 April 2014 at 18:28
Aaauuugh! The lately passed were only a few months younger than me. Oof.
jackdeighton
14 April 2014 at 19:26
That’s it Denis,
All we’ve got to look forward to now is funerals.