This is so sad

I see from Kathryn Cramer’s weblog that Hal Clement died yesterday.

Hal was such a gentleman…funny, scarily intelligent…and probably the only math teacher I ever really liked. He was a fixture around East Coast fandom / prodom for so long: no Boskone was complete without him.

I was hoping to have seen him at Worldcon in Toronto: either he wasn’t there, or I missed him.

Damn. Noreascon is going to be very strange sans Hal…