You are very lucky to have spent this time with three such people. I had met all three at Science Fiction conventions and would have loved to have got to know all of them better.
Still as a paid up Eternicon member (an eternal Science Fiction convention afterlife) I have hopes of doing so later,
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Originally Posted by HarryT
One of my fondest memories is a train journey I made
with Terry Pratchett, Bob Shaw, and Iain Banks (sad to think that all three are now dead) from Warrington (where Bob and I both lived) to an "Eastercon" in Glasgow. Must have been in the mid 1980s, I think, when Terry had published a couple of books but wasn't yet really "famous". He was a truly delightful man.
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