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My first exposure to his writing was, appropriately enough given the reminders of his gaming writing, Alkahest: The Deathtoll Solution from Autoduel Quarterly.

I'm remembering another of his Car Wars stories, "Street Legal":
...the wrong way down both one-ways, and threw two objects out. Fortunately only pedestrians were killed in the incident.

I keep cycling back to that Verona Total Breakdown excerpt, and its total bloody brilliance.

Seconded.

I've always been a reader of science fiction, never a part of hardcore fandom. So in the past, the death of any given SF author has elicited from me little more than a brief "oh, that's too bad."

I never met John M. Ford, but I'm grieving. In The Final Reflection and the stories he wrote in the Car Wars game setting, he brought more seriousness, depth, and dignity to the table than many people would have thought the subject was worth, and at the same time did it with brilliantly inexplicable humor.

Just a few weeks ago I stumbled across his Mammoth Salad recipe which had me giggling for hours. A brilliant piece, whipped up and tossed into a thread for no other reason than to make people smile.

And now, no more.

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