Yes! It's in the authors thread mentioned yesterday.
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Yeah, I saw that, after I posted. :/ I was gonna post it, yesterday, but, for some reason, my comp wouldn't load this site. :/
Definitely one of the biggest deaths in a while and maybe of the year depends on how the rest of the year goes. I can't think of a more famous author to die since michael crichton.
A very geographical opinion. In the UK James Herbert and Iain Banks were pretty big news.