Death Comes to Call

A friend of mine just died today. She was recently diagnosed with a Glioblastoma - a type of aggressive brain cancer. I now have three friends and acquaintances who have passed from this particular form of cancer in recent memory, when I can't recall even having heard of it before the first one was diagnosed. It's also the type of cancer that claimed former US Senator John McCain, whom I rarely agreed with but whose rhetoric I respected, though his actions and his voting record didn't always match his words.

I spent my late teens and early twenties as part of the local science fiction group, SF3, in Madison, Wisconsin. Most of my friends there are significantly older than I - they having mostly come together in the 1970s to form WisCon and the sci-fi club that ran/supported it. I joined...

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