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R.I.P. Tom Clancy

kpg1usakpg1usa Member Posts: 190 Arc User
edited October 2013 in Ten Forward
What a great author! He will be missed!


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?_r=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    He'll just respawn.
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  • kpg1usakpg1usa Member Posts: 190 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Another good article on him:

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tom-clancy-dead-20131002,0,2346736.story
  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Aw.

    Clancy has always been an inspiration, and his devotion to realism and detail is something I've always tried to emulate with my writing.

    I'm gonna miss him.
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited October 2013
    I've been a big fan of Tom Clancy since I was a kid and first read The Hunt For Red October. He's been a big influence on my Foundry missions. He will be missed.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Well damn. :( Red Storm Rising was one of my favorite books evah.
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    o.O R.I.P.


    Can people just stop the dieing now please... :mad:
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  • raventomoeraventomoe Member Posts: 723 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Happy Trails dude!

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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    His stories were truly awesome, he indeed will be missed.
  • temporalhavoctemporalhavoc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    He wrote some of the best books I have ever read, and had a very insightful way of mixing reality into his fiction. He will be missed.
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  • rylanadionysisrylanadionysis Member Posts: 3,359 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Engage the silent drive, old man.

    Sail on.

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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Wow...what a shame. :-(

    I always liked his earlier works best, as I think his writing lost some passion later on--but then I always suspected (and I figure interviewers were too tactful to ask) that it grieved him so much to have almost predicted 9-11 in Debt of Honor that it impacted his writing. One cannot blame a man for that. And it most certainly speaks to the caliber of research and deduction he could do, that he was able to point out that sort of vulnerability before anyone else did. ("Echelon" also sounds an awful lot like what we actually found out about the NSA.)

    He will be missed.

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  • senshibat01senshibat01 Member Posts: 11,320 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    To the everlasting memory for Red Storm and Rainbow 6 Beta testing..

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  • ambassadormolariambassadormolari Member Posts: 709 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I can't say I ever read any of his stuff, and I'll admit, the genre he wrote for never appealed that much to me to begin with. Be even I can't deny that he was the one who defined that genre, and had a pretty big literary impact on a lot of people.

    He will be missed.
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  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    The Cardinal of the Kremlin, was the first book I read from him.I loved much of his work.
    Rest in peace, thanks for your contributions to my imagination.
  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited October 2013
    I wonder what this will mean for the Jack Ryan movie series. I understand they were planning to reboot it. I suppose it could play out like James Bond, where the movies take on a life of their own separate from the books. But I also remember Clancy's predecessor, Alstair MacLean, who wrote some really great action and spy novels, some of which ended up as movies, and whose work was largely forgotten after his death.
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,498 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Well damn. :( Red Storm Rising was one of my favorite books evah.

    Red Storm Rising and The Hunt for Red October were very good. Since the OP Center series he lost my interest though.

    RIP
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    :(

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  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Tom Clancy's writing, especially Net Force Explorers, got me into writing as a hobby and heavily influenced my early mini-fics. I'd be renaming the Yamato's cloaking device as the Silent Drive in his memory if I could.

    Sail on, old man. You'll be missed.

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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Was a big fan of his books. Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Sum of All Fears (goodness did the movie alter it), Clear and Present Danger, Without Remorse, Rainbow Six (which spawned the awesome R6, Rogue Spear, Raven Shield games until the early 2000s).
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