Both Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing and Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light are reporting that the great science fiction humorist Robert Sheckley has died. He was one of my husband David Hartwell's authors, and I'd tagged along for several pleasant dinners with him. It's really too bad. He was 77, but had recently still been doing pretty good work. His stories appeared in several of our recent Year's Best anotholgies. I'm very sorry to hear of his passing.