Hi All
The National Space Society reviewed Dad's last work, In the Belly of the Whale. Take a read here, and don't forget you can buy the book anywhere books are sold (including Amazon, B&N, Indigo, etc).
It was also reviewed in Locus by Paul DiFilippo as a TOF Spot reader graciously informed me. Check it out here. DiFilippo refers to the large cast of characters that Dad created and it reminds me that Dad, like a certain very famous SF/mainly Fantasy writer, was a gardener of a writer, except that he created English ornamental gardens. Characters, plot lines and details were researched, planned and plotted out to the smallest detail. His office walls and cabinet doors were covered in print outs, maps, and index cards of research and notes he was attempting to keep in order as he wrote. He wrote something set in Milwaukee during the time period he and Mom met and researched for - days, weeks? - over the color of the street signs in that time period. As if one of you, his readers, would clock that if he got the wrong color and let the world know. Maybe you would have!
Like a certain very famous SF/mainly Fantasy writer, this immense dedication to detail and characters sometimes meant he got caught up in that and fell behind in the writing, I'm sure much to any given editor's irritation. But that was Dad. If you brought home algebra homework, he was known to start looking at it to help you and then get up from the table and wander off with your algebra book to compare it to some math book he had in his office while you haplessly sat there. The question, "What did you do in school today?" could lead to a 45 minute lecture if you'd had a social studies or history class that day, complete with Dad pulling books related to the day's lesson off the shelf and handing them to you.
Additional Reviews: John Purvis III at writing on the Medium
