sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-12-14 10:46 am

The big hand of the clock is at 12. The little hand is at 7

Why did I not know until after he died that Russell Hoban of Riddley Walker (1980) also wrote Bedtime for Frances (1960) and Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1971)? I read the latter as a very small child and the former in college; I never put the names together. I was prepared to miss a luminary of science fiction and now I'm grieving for a small pencil-drawn badger.

[identity profile] ibid.livejournal.com 2011-12-15 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Not to mention The Mouse and His Child!