Edward Becerra wrote:

        A few hours ago, I heard about Derek Bacon's death. I got in touch
with Megazone and Gryphon. I don't know _why_ I did.. it was something I
felt I had to do, for some reason I don't really understand.

"No man is an island unto himself; every man is a piece of the
Continent, a part of the maine.

If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a
promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own
were.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for
thee."

			Dr John Donne (1572-1631)


Unfortunately I also only knew him through his prose... My loss.

I could write many things here, but it would sound trite and hollow. 
For what it is worth, my deepest sympathy to those who knew him as a
person as well as a writer.

He will be missed.

-- 
Barry Cadwgan ( BCADWGAN@FL.NET.AU )
"The end does not justify the means.  
 The end is the sum of the means,
 as the road travelled determines the destination." 
Valijon Starbringer (Hellflower Trilogy, Eluki bes Shahar)