David Eddings passes away

clipped from www.sfcrowsnest.com David Eddings passes away Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way for a whole generation of doorstopper sized fantasy series. Goodbye David, you will be missed. you can see David Eddings' influence running through Xena and Hercules too Eddings was born back in 1931 and wrote many of his books with his wife Leigh Eddings. The world of the Belgariad was spun out into the Malloreon series, and by the time he was writing the Tamuli and Elenium series, the influences of his co-writing wife were becoming ever more evident. She died before him at the age of 69, also from a stroke, in 2007, and he missed her terribly - his work never really flowed again after her loss.