I remember seeing something about it on one of my RSS feeds when I was on a train into Chicago last Thursday afternoon. So it did recieve some mention, just perhaps didn't make its way over here.
EDIT: seems the first mention that I can easily find in my RSS feeds is a post on /r/fantasy that was posted around 11:30 AM Chicago time that day
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/com...kien_has_died/
EDIT: And it made Slashdot and BoingBoing as well