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oh, bugger...
Jan. 3rd, 2008 11:46 amR.I.P., George MacDonald Fraser. Looks like he hung on until his latest book got to print.
I love his adventure fiction (including his screenplays for the Richard Lester films of The Three Musketeers and his marvelous historical novels about the ultimate Victorian bad boy, Sir Harry Flashman), but most of all I love his short stories about life as a junior officer in the Army after WWII (and his short and scattered memoir about his service as an enlisted man *during* the war, in Burma no less).
Good thing I'll be going to the pub tonight--a toast to the memory of a grand curmudgeon and excellent story-teller is definitely warranted.
I love his adventure fiction (including his screenplays for the Richard Lester films of The Three Musketeers and his marvelous historical novels about the ultimate Victorian bad boy, Sir Harry Flashman), but most of all I love his short stories about life as a junior officer in the Army after WWII (and his short and scattered memoir about his service as an enlisted man *during* the war, in Burma no less).
Good thing I'll be going to the pub tonight--a toast to the memory of a grand curmudgeon and excellent story-teller is definitely warranted.
