A sad piece of news today. Robert Holdstock, author of the Elite Novella ‘The Dark Wheel’ and the ‘Mythago Wood’ Sequence of books, passed away at 4am this morning, aged 61, after complications due to an E. Coli infection.
Unfortunately I never managed to meet him, but his Novella for ‘Elite’ certainly contributed to my own wish to start writing and I can trace my own ‘Status Quo’ and ‘Mutabilis’ for ‘Oolite’ directly back to Robert’s work.
For those not familiar with ‘The Dark Wheel’ it is possible to read it here online. It’s a great space yarn and set the scene for the most important computer game of the 1980s – ‘Elite’. It fleshed out the background to the universe of ‘Elite’, and made it ‘real’ for many thousands of us.
Thanks for the inspiration, imagination and the good times Robert. You’ll be sorely missed.
The members of The Dark Wheel salute you.
Right on, Commander.
I didn’t know about Robert Holdstock, until I’ve just read your post. The Dark Wheel was and inspirational story that took me into the world of Elite, sadly missed.
I am certainly interested in what you have been writing. When I get a moment I will double check that they are free and give them a review on thedarkwheel.co.uk it’s good to see that Elite (Oolite) still lives on.