Gary Gygax died.

[outsdr]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html

I still remember the first D&D book he co-wrote with Andre Norton. It was awesome.

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[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I actually said "Good God!" out loud when I read your subject line. In certain ways, D&D helped shaped my life, especially the Monster Manual. *raises a toast to Gary, whichever of the Outer Planes he's currently inhabiting*

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

The Monster Manual! I used to look over it for HOURS. IT was the monsters that got me in the game.

I think this was the book I read:

http://www.amazon.com/Quag-Keep-Andre-Norton/dp/0765313022

"In 1976 Andre Norton was invited to play a new sort of adventure game, Dungeons Dragons. Its creator, E. Gary Gygax, introduced Norton to his world of Greyhawk. After a session of world building, role playing, and fantasy adventuring, Norton wrote Quag Keep, a tale of six adventurers from our world who journey to the city of Greyhawk in order to aid a wizard and unlock the secrets of the stronghold of Quag Keep."

I read the book in 1982.

Turns out there was a sequel:

http://www.amazon.com/Return-Quag-Keep-Andre-Norton/dp/0765312980

I'd like to collect all the books written by Andre Norton. But damn, is THAT going to be expensive!

And I'll need a warehouse ot keep them in, lol. She wrote a _lot_.

[asia-sky.livejournal.com]

i have a paperback 86 or 87 Flight in Yiktor and the book following it somewhere in my boxed up collection... if i find them i could mail them to you. they are the only A.N. books i think i've read.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Oh I would DEFINITELY give them a good home. I discovered Andre Norton around the age of 8, I think, and Robert Heinlein's young adult science fiction novels shortly after that. I can still picture the exact shelf they were found on at my hometown's public library. Those two authors really fed and developed my love for science fiction.

[asia-sky.livejournal.com]

I am a Heinlein reader.
I still have not read everything he has written, but I enjoy trying.
I loved it when I was traveling and I would get to a new town and get a library card and discover in the stacks a Heinlein book I had never seen or heard of yet.
I'll keep you in mind as I do my spring cleaning.